Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 8
Freya said she was at Amy's house; Mum rang Amy's mum, so it was Amy's gran's; which gran?
Who acts: Freya, Mum, lie · What happens: say, be, ring · To what, where: house, mum · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Freya, Mum, lie), 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 | Freya | Freya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 house | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 house | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | Amy | Amy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Amy | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 rang | punct |
| 10 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rang | nsubj |
| 11 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 12 | Amy | Amy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mum | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Amy | case |
| 14 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rang | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mum | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 gran | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gran | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gran | cop |
| 19 | Amy | Amy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gran | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Amy | case |
| 21 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rang | advcl |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 gran | case |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 gran | punct |
| 24 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 25 gran | det |
| 25 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gran | parataxis |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=wh
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Freya | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Freya | Amy's house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ring | past | Mum | Amy's mum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | lie | 's Amy's gran | 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:8.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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