«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 27
Pretending to be ill makes it harder for people to believe you on a day you really are ill.
Who acts: Pretending, people, you · What happens: pretend, be, make, believe · To what, where: you, day
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 (Pretending, people, you), 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 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 makes | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 ill | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 harder | nsubj |
| 7 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 believe | mark |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 believe | mark |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 harder | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believe | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 ill | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 ill | advmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ill | cop |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Pretending | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | people | you | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | present | you | a day not said here | ill property | 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:27.
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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