Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 29
A story that keeps changing is the classic sign of a lie.
Who acts: story · What happens: keep, change, be · To what, where: classic sign
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 (story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sign | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 story | acl:relcl |
| 5 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 keeps | xcomp |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sign | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sign | det |
| 8 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sign | amod |
| 9 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lie | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lie | det |
| 12 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sign | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a story | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | gerund | a story not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a story | the classic sign | of a lie | 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:29.
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): no change. 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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