The friend with a PS6, sentence 36

Not every lie needs to be caught; sometimes the kind thing is to let it drop and like the person anyway.

Who acts: lie, kind thing · What happens: need, catch, be, drop, like · To what, where: person

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 (lie, kind thing), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 lie	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lie	det
3	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 caught	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 caught	aux:pass
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 needs	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 let	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 let	mark
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 like	cc
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 person	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 like	obj
22	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	19 like	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	every lie			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	every lie not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
3	is	present	the kind thing		let, sometimes property	tree rules
4	drop	infinitive	the kind thing not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	like	infinitive	the kind thing not said here	the person	anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot person=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:36.

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): no change. 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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