Covering for a friend, sentence 28
Lying for a friend often gets you into the same trouble, the friend may not even thank you, and the friend learns nothing.
Who acts: Lying, friend · What happens: lie, get, not thank, learn · To what, where: you, same trouble, nothing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (Lying, friend), 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 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gets | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 friend | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lying | obl |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 gets | advmod |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 gets | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trouble | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trouble | amod |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trouble | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trouble | conj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 thank | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 thank | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 thank | advmod |
| 18 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 friend | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 thank | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 learns | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 learns | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 friend | det |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 learns | nsubj |
| 24 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gets | conj |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 learns | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | for a friend | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | present | Lying | you | the same trouble and the friend | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | not thank speech: thank | may | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | learn | present | the friend | nothing | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:28.
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 ×2. 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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