Covering for a friend, sentence 29
Giving a false alibi about where someone was can put them in danger if something goes wrong.
Who acts: someone, Giving, something · What happens: give, be, put, go · To what, where: false alibi, means, danger
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 (someone, Giving, something), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 put | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 alibi | det |
| 3 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 alibi | amod |
| 4 | alibi | alibi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 was | advmod |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alibi | acl |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 danger | case |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 goes | mark |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 goes | nsubj |
| 16 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | advcl |
| 17 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 goes | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | a false alibi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alibi=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | can | Giving | means | danger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in danger=Destination | |||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | something | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:436-covering-for-a-friend.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): 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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