Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 25
Sam said his project was at school, then «in the teacher's cupboard», until the teacher said «What project?
Who acts: Sam, project, teacher · What happens: say, be, project · To what, where: school, cupboard » · 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 (Sam, project, teacher), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 project | nmod:poss |
| 4 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 school | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 school | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 school | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 said | advmod |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 then | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 » | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cupboard | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 teacher | case |
| 15 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 » | compound |
| 16 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 » | punct |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 said | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 teacher | det |
| 20 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | advcl |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 23 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 24 project | det |
| 24 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=wh
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Sam's project | school | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the teacher | cupboard » | then | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in »=Manner | |||
| 4 | project | Sam | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:25.
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, 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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