Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 13
«The 86.» Nothing was handed in — and then Mum saw a girl from his class using a pass with Jake's photo on it.
Who acts: Mum, girl · What happens: hand in, see, use · To what, where: Nothing, girl, class, pass
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 (Mum, girl), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 86 | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 86 | det |
| 3 | 86 | 86 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 86 | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 86 | punct |
| 6 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 handed | aux:pass |
| 8 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 86 | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 handed | compound:prt |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 handed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 handed | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 class | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 class | nmod:poss |
| 19 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | nmod |
| 20 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 girl | acl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pass | det |
| 22 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 using | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 photo | case |
| 24 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 photo | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Jake | case |
| 26 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pass | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 photo | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 86 | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand in | past · passive | Nothing | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Mum | a girl | «'s class | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | use | gerund | a girl not said here | a pass | with Jake's photo on pass | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=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.
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:13.
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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