Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 30
Each new lie makes the truth harder and more embarrassing to tell.
Who acts: new lie, truth · What happens: make, tell · To what, where: truth · 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 (new lie, truth), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 lie | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lie | amod |
| 3 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 embarrassing | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 embarrassing | advmod |
| 10 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 harder | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 embarrassing | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | each new lie | the truth | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset truth=Product | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:30.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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