Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 36
Parents can help with a bad mark; they cannot help with a faked good one.
Who acts: Parents, claims · What happens: help, not help, fake
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 (Parents, claims), 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mark | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mark | det |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mark | amod |
| 7 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 help | advmod |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 15 | faked | fake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 one | amod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | 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 | help | can | Parents | with a bad mark | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mark=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not help | can | claims = claim | with a faked good one | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fake | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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:36.
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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