The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 25
The lie about an accident is often punished more than the accident itself.
What happens: punish · To what, where: lie
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: 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 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 accident | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 accident | det |
| 5 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lie | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 punished | aux:pass |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 punished | advmod |
| 8 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 punished | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 accident | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 accident | det |
| 12 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 13 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 12 accident | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | present · passive | the lie about a accident | often property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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.
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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): R5-strong ×1. 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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