Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 37
You don't need invented things, like a horse or a famous uncle, to be liked.
Who acts: You · What happens: not need, invent, like · To what, where: invented 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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 things | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 uncle | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 uncle | det |
| 13 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 uncle | amod |
| 14 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 liked | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 liked | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 liked | aux:pass |
| 18 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 need | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | You | invented things | like a horse or a famous uncle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | invent | participle | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | like | to-infinitive · passive | You not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» |
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:37.
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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