Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 7
Every lie needs a bodyguard of new lies, because people ask the next question.
Who acts: lie, people · What happens: need, ask · To what, where: bodyguard, next question
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, people), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bodyguard | det |
| 5 | bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lies | case |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lies | amod |
| 8 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bodyguard | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 12 ask | mark |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needs | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 question | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 question | amod |
| 15 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | every lie | a bodyguard of new lies | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bodyguard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | people | the next question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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:7.
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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