«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 30
The punishment for an excuse is often bigger than for the missing homework: the lie gets its own consequence.
Who acts: punishment, lie · What happens: be, get · To what, where: own consequence
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 (punishment, lie), 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 | 2 punishment | det |
| 2 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bigger | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 excuse | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 excuse | det |
| 5 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 punishment | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bigger | cop |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 bigger | advmod |
| 8 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 homework | case |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 homework | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 homework | det |
| 12 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 homework | amod |
| 13 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bigger | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 gets | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lie | det |
| 16 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gets | nsubj |
| 17 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 homework | parataxis |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 consequence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 consequence | amod |
| 20 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gets | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the punishment for a excuse | than the missing homework; big, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | the lie | lie's own consequence | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consequence=Stimulus |
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:30.
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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