Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 38

A threat to tell a lie about you loses its power when you tell a grown-up first.

Who acts: threat, you · What happens: tell, lose · To what, where: lie, power, grown · 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 (threat, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 threat	det
2	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loses	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 threat	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lie	nmod
9	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loses	obj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 tell	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 loses	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 up	det
16	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 up	punct
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 grown	compound
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 tell	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 loses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a threat not said here	a lie	about you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient about you=Topic
2	lose	present	a threat	lie's power		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	you	grown	first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:38.

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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