The friend with a PS6, sentence 31

People often lie because they feel small; being kind when the lie comes out can save the friendship.

Who acts: People, lie, kind · What happens: lie, feel, be, come out, save · To what, where: kind, friendship

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 (People, lie, kind), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
3	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 save	parataxis
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 feel	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	advcl
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 kind	cop
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	nsubj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 comes	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lie	det
13	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 comes	compound:prt
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 save	aux
17	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 friendship	det
19	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	present	People		often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	people		small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	gerund		kind		tree rules
4	come out	present	the lie			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	save	can	kind	the friendship		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:31.

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. 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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