The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 24
An accident is not a lie; hiding it or blaming someone else is.
Who acts: accident · What happens: not be, hide, blame, be · To what, where: lie, accident, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (accident), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 accident | det |
| 2 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lie | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lie | det |
| 6 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 hiding | punct |
| 8 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 is | nsubj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hiding | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 blaming | cc |
| 11 | blaming | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hiding | conj |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 blaming | obj |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 someone | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 is a | present | a accident | a lie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | accident | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | blame | gerund | someone | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | present | vn exist-47.1 «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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:24.
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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