The friend with a PS6, sentence 4

Boasting lies are told to look cool, and they usually cost the very thing they were meant to win: people's respect.

Who acts: Boasting lies, lies, people · What happens: boast, tell, look, cost, mean, win · To what, where: Boasting lies, very thing, lies · 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cost	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cost	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cost	nsubj
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	12 cost	advmod
12	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cost	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meant	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 meant	aux:pass
18	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 thing	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 win	mark
20	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 meant	xcomp
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 respect	punct
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 respect	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 people	case
24	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	appos
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	cost	present	lies = lie	the very thing	usually property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thing=Value
5	mean	past · passive		lies = lie		tree rules
6	win not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	respect		people			nom respect «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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:4.

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): 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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