Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 29
Present contests make people lie, and nobody really wins them.
Who acts: Present contests, people, nobody · What happens: make, lie, win · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (Present contests, people, nobody), 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 | Present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 contests | amod |
| 2 | contests | contest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wins | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wins | cc |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 wins | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 wins | advmod |
| 10 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wins | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Present contests | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | infinitive | people not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win | present | nobody | people | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:29.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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