Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 27
The moment you notice you are inventing a second lie is the best moment to stop: «Nah, I made that up.» The way out of a hole is to stop digging.
Who acts: you, moment, teacher · What happens: notice, invent, be, stop, make up, dig · To what, where: moment, second lie, best moment, that · 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 (you, moment, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moment | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 notice | nsubj |
| 4 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 inventing | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 inventing | aux |
| 7 | inventing | invent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 notice | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lie | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 lie | amod |
| 10 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inventing | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 moment | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 moment | amod |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stop | mark |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 moment | acl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 moment | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 19 | Nah | Nah | INTJ | _ | 22 made | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Nah | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moment | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 made | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stop | obl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 hole | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 hole | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hole | det |
| 32 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 way | nmod |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 stop | cop |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 stop | mark |
| 35 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 moment | parataxis |
| 36 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 stop | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present | you | the moment not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent | present · progressive | you | a second lie | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the moment | the best moment | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | make up in a quote | past | the teacher = teacher | that | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the way out a hole obl; stop property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | dig | gerund | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:27.
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): R6-punct-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.
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