The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 32
Grown-ups often forgive accidents quickly but remember being lied to.
Who acts: Grown ups · What happens: grow, forgive, remember, lie · To what, where: accidents
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 (Grown ups), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forgive | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 forgive | advmod |
| 5 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forgive | obj |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 forgive | advmod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 remember | cc |
| 9 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgive | conj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 lied | aux:pass |
| 11 | lied | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 remember | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lied | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | forgive | present | Grown ups | accidents | often, quickly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Theme | |||
| 3 | remember | present | Grown ups not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lie | gerund · passive | Grown ups not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V» |
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:32.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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