Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 23
Dad said: «I'd rather a true save than a fake goal, ya numpty.»
Who acts: Dad · What happens: say, save · 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 (Dad), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 « | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 save | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | aux |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 save | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 save | det |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 save | amod |
| 10 | save | save | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 goal | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 goal | det |
| 13 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 goal | amod |
| 14 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 numpty | punct |
| 16 | ya | ya | INTJ | _ | 17 numpty | discourse |
| 17 | numpty | numpty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | vocative |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save in a quote | would | Dad | than a fake goal; numpty vocative | 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:23.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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