When the police come, sentence 33
Telling the police the truth calmly is always the best choice; lying makes things much worse.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, be, lie, make · To what, where: truth, police, best choice, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 choice | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 police | det |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 6 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 choice | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 choice | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 choice | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 choice | amod |
| 11 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 makes | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 makes | punct |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 makes | nsubj |
| 14 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 makes | obj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 worse | advmod |
| 17 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 choice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the truth | the police | calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent police=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Telling | the best choice | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | present | things | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:33.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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