When the story falls apart, sentence 25
Inventing someone who hurt you is a big lie: it scares people who love you and could get an innocent person in trouble.
Who acts: Inventing, story, people · What happens: invent, hurt, be, scare, love, get · To what, where: someone, you, big lie, people, innocent person, trouble
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 (Inventing, story, 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 | Inventing | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lie | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Inventing | obj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lie | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lie | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lie | amod |
| 9 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 scares | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 scares | nsubj |
| 12 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lie | parataxis |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scares | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 love | nsubj |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 love | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 scares | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 person | det |
| 21 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 person | amod |
| 22 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 trouble | case |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | gerund | someone | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Result | |||||
| 2 | hurt | past | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Inventing | a big lie | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | scare | present | story | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | love | present | people | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | get | could | story not said here | a innocent person | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
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:25.
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. 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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