«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 18

The plain truth is nearly always the cheapest: «I didn't do it, I'll bring it tomorrow», or «I got stuck».

Who acts: plain truth, Theo · What happens: be, not do, bring, get · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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 (plain truth, Theo), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
2	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 truth	amod
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheapest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cheapest	cop
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 always	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 cheapest	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cheapest	det
8	cheapest	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 cheapest	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cheapest	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bring	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 bring	nsubj
18	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 bring	aux
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 do	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bring	obj
21	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bring	obl:unmarked
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 bring	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 do	conj
28	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 got	xcomp
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cheapest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the plain truth			always, cheap property	tree rules
2	not do in a quote	past · do-support	Theo in Leeds = theo	truth			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	bring in a quote	future	Theo in Leeds = theo	truth	tomorrow		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	get in a quote	past	Theo in Leeds = theo			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:18.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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