«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 25

Saying «I left it at home» every day is a lie that shows itself, because the homework never comes.

Who acts: I, Saying, lie, homework · What happens: say, leave, be, show, not come · To what, where: juice, home, lie · 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 (I, Saying, lie, homework), 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	Saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 lie	csubj
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Saying	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl:unmarked
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lie	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lie	det
13	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 shows	nsubj
15	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lie	acl:relcl
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 shows	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 comes	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 homework	det
20	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 comes	advmod
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shows	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave in a quote	past	I	juice	home	day	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at home=Location
3	is a	present	Saying	a lie			tree rules
4	show	present	a lie	juice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient
5	not come	present	the homework				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:25.

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): no change. 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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