Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 11
Jake in Manchester swapped his bus pass for sweets and told Mum he'd lost it.
Who acts: Jake · What happens: swap, tell, lose, pass · To what, where: bus pass, Mum, pass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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 (Jake), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swapped | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Manchester | case |
| 3 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jake | nmod |
| 4 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pass | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | compound |
| 7 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swapped | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sweets | case |
| 9 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swapped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swapped | conj |
| 12 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 told | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swapped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | past | Jake in Manchester | Jake's bus pass | for sweets | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent pass=Theme for sweet=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Jake in Manchester not said here | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | Jake | pass | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pass | Jake | nom pass «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.lesson:11.
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, 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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