Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 33
Buying time with lies («I'll bring the note tomorrow») makes the trouble bigger every day.
Who acts: truth, Buying · What happens: buy, bring, make · To what, where: note, trouble
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 (truth, Buying), 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 | Buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 makes | csubj |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buying | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 lies | case |
| 4 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Buying | obl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bring | aux |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Buying | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 note | det |
| 11 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 12 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trouble | det |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makes | obj |
| 18 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bigger | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | gerund | time | with lies | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | future | the truth = truth | the note | tomorrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent note=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | present | Buying | the trouble | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product |
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:33.
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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