Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 24
Ava, new at school and wanting friends fast, showed a photo of «her horse» at Grandpa's farm; a girl did a reverse image search and found the photo on a horse-riding website.
Who acts: Ava, girl · What happens: want, show, do, find · To what, where: friends, photo, farm, image search, riding website
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 (Ava, 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 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ava | punct |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ava | amod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 school | case |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 new | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wanting | cc |
| 7 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 new | conj |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wanting | obj |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 wanting | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 photo | det |
| 13 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 horse | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 photo | nmod |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 horse | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 farm | case |
| 20 | Grandpa | Grandpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 farm | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Grandpa | case |
| 22 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 showed | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 search | det |
| 28 | reverse | reverse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 image | amod |
| 29 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 search | compound |
| 30 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 did | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 found | cc |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 did | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 photo | det |
| 34 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 website | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 website | det |
| 37 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 riding | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 horse | punct |
| 39 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 website | compound |
| 40 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | gerund | Ava not said here | friends | fast property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | Ava | a photo of Ava's horse | Grandpa's farm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=Recipient | |||
| 3 | do | past | a girl | a image search | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | find | past | a girl not said here | the photo | a riding website | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Topic |
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:24.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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