Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 19
Theo skipped football for «a cold»; the coach saw him at the cinema, so it was «a cinema for sick people».
Who acts: Theo, coach · What happens: skip, see, be · To what, where: football, Theo, cinema · 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 (Theo, coach), 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 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 skipped | nsubj |
| 2 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skipped | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 cold | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cold | det |
| 7 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skipped | obl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coach | det |
| 11 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 skipped | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 cinema | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cinema | det |
| 16 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cinema | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 cinema | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cinema | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cinema | cop |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 cinema | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cinema | det |
| 23 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 25 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cinema | nmod |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 cinema | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | Theo | football | for a cold | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | the coach | Theo | the cinema | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | coach | a cinema | for sick people | tree rules |
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:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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