Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 39

Two people telling the same lie often get caught when they are asked separately, because their details don't match.

Who acts: Two people, details, people · What happens: tell, catch, ask, not match, detail · To what, where: same lie, Two people, people · 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 (Two people, details, 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 caught	nsubj:pass
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 people	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lie	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lie	amod
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
7	often	often	ADV	_	9 caught	advmod
8	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 caught	aux:pass
9	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 asked	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	aux:pass
13	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 caught	advcl
14	separately	separately	ADV	_	13 asked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 match	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 match	mark
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 details	nmod:poss
18	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 match	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 match	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 match	advmod
21	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 caught	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 caught	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Two people not said here	the same lie		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
2	catch	present · passive		Two people	often property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	present · passive		people	separately property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	not match	present · do-support	people's details			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	detail		people			nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=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:39.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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