Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 38
The earliest moment to stop a lie is the easiest one.
Who acts: earliest moment · What happens: stop, be · To what, where: lie, easiest one
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 (earliest moment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stop | mark |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 moment | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lie | det |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | the earliest moment not said here | a lie | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality lie=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the earliest moment | the easiest one | tree rules |
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:38.
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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