«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 24

Making fake proof, like pouring juice on a sheet, turns a fib into a plan to fool someone, and teachers take it more seriously.

Who acts: Making, teachers · What happens: make, pour, turn, fool, take · To what, where: fake proof, juice, sheet, fib, plan, someone

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 (Making, teachers), 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	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 turns	csubj
2	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proof	amod
3	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pouring	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 pouring	mark
6	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Making	advcl
7	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pouring	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 sheet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sheet	det
10	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pouring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turns	punct
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fib	det
14	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 plan	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plan	det
17	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fool	mark
19	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 turns	advcl
20	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 fool	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
23	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 take	nsubj
24	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 turns	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	obj
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 seriously	advmod
27	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	24 take	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		fake proof			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proof=Product
2	pour	gerund		juice	a sheet		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient
3	turn	present	Making	a fib	a plan		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fib=Theme into plan=Trajectory
4	fool	to-infinitive	Making not said here	someone			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
5	take	present	teachers	fib		seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:24.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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