Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 20
The coach laughed so hard he forgot to be angry — but Theo was still benched.
Who acts: coach, Theo · What happens: laugh, forget, not be, bench · To what, where: Theo
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 (coach, Theo), 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 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 forgot | nsubj |
| 7 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 angry | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 angry | cop |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forgot | xcomp |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 benched | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 benched | cc |
| 13 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 benched | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 benched | aux:pass |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 benched | advmod |
| 16 | benched | bench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 laughed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the coach | hard property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Theo | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | to-infinitive | Theo not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bench | past · passive | Theo | still | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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:20.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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