«I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 27
Getting away with a lie does not always feel like winning; guilt can feel worse than being caught.
Who acts: Getting, guilt · What happens: get away, not feel, win, feel, catch
This is a sentence of the lesson ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» 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 (Getting, guilt), 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 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 feel | csubj |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Getting | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 lie | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lie | det |
| 5 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obl |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 feel | advmod |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 feel | advmod |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 feel | parataxis |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 winning | mark |
| 11 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 feel | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 13 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | aux |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 caught | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 caught | aux:pass |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 worse | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | gerund | with a lie; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not feel | present · do-support | Getting | always property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | win | gerund | Getting not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | can | guilt | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | catch | gerund · passive | guilt not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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:427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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