The friend with a PS6, sentence 26
Boasting lies are told to look cool or to fit in, and when found out they cost people's trust.
Who acts: Boasting lies, lies, people · What happens: boast, tell, look, fit in, find out, cost · To what, where: Boasting lies, trust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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 (Boasting lies, lies, 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 | Boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 lies | amod |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fit | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fit | mark |
| 10 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 look | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fit | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cost | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 found | advmod |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cost | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 found | compound:prt |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cost | nsubj |
| 18 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 trust | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 people | case |
| 21 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cost | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Boasting lies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | Boasting lies not said here | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fit in | to-infinitive | Boasting lies not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find out | participle | lies = lie not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cost | present | lies = lie | people's trust | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme trust=Value | ||||
| 7 | trust | people | nom trust «possession intransitive»: 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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:26.
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, R8-pos-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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