When the story falls apart, sentence 23
Small clues, like dates on packets, witnesses and shopkeepers who know you, often break a lie.
Who acts: shopkeepers, Small clues · What happens: know, break · To what, where: you, lie
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (shopkeepers, Small clues), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clues | amod |
| 2 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 break | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dates | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 dates | case |
| 5 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clues | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 packets | case |
| 7 | packets | packet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dates | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 witnesses | punct |
| 9 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clues | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shopkeepers | cc |
| 11 | shopkeepers | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clues | conj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shopkeepers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 break | punct |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 break | advmod |
| 17 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lie | det |
| 19 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 break | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | shopkeepers | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | break | present | Small clues like dates on packets and witnesses and shopkeepers | a lie | often property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lie=Patient |
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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:23.
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): 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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