Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 34
A lie told to one person can travel far, even into a club newsletter.
Who acts: lie · What happens: tell, travel · To what, where: one person, club newsletter · 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 (lie), 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 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lie | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 person | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 person | nummod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 travel | aux |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 travel | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 newsletter | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 newsletter | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 newsletter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 newsletter | det |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 newsletter | compound |
| 15 | newsletter | newsletter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a lie not said here | one person | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to person=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | travel | can | a lie | a club newsletter | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into newsletter=Destination |
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:34.
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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