«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 26
Using a real problem that did not happen to you, like a power cut in another street, is still a lie.
Who acts: real problem · What happens: not happen, be · To what, where: you, lie
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 (real problem), 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 | Using | use | ADP | _ | 4 problem | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 problem | amod |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happen | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happen | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 happen | advmod |
| 8 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 problem | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 happen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 cut | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cut | det |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | compound |
| 15 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happen | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 street | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 street | det |
| 18 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 problem | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lie | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 lie | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lie | det |
| 23 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | past · do-support | a real problem | you | like a power cut in another street | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a real problem | a lie | still | tree rules |
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:26.
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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