Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 35
When caught, inventing an even bigger story makes things worse, not better.
Who acts: inventing · What happens: catch, invent, make · To what, where: bigger story, things
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 (inventing), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 caught | mark |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 makes | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 inventing | punct |
| 4 | inventing | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | csubj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 bigger | advmod |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inventing | obj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 better | advmod |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | inventing not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | invent | gerund | a bigger story | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | |||||
| 3 | make | present | inventing | things | bad, good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=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:35.
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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