Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 42
A promise to cover any lie is not a fair promise; you don't owe anyone silence about something serious.
Who acts: promise, you · What happens: cover, not be, not owe · To what, where: lie, fair promise, anyone silence
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 (promise, 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 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cover | mark |
| 4 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | acl |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 lie | det |
| 6 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cover | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 promise | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 promise | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 promise | det |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 promise | amod |
| 11 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 owe | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 owe | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 owe | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 owe | advmod |
| 16 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promise | parataxis |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 silence | compound |
| 18 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owe | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 something | case |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 silence | nmod |
| 21 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 something | amod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | to-infinitive | a promise not said here | any lie | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lie=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | a promise | a fair promise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not owe | present · do-support | you | anyone silence | about something | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |
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:42.
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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