Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 29
Most people, when they grow up, prefer the truth told gently.
Who acts: people, Most people · What happens: grow up, prefer, tell · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (people, Most 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prefer | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 grow | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 prefer | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grow | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| 9 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prefer | obj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 truth | acl |
| 13 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 12 told | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present | people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prefer | present | Most people | the truth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | the truth not said here | gently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:29.
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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