Covering for a friend, sentence 30
Lying for someone who stole makes you part of it; speak only for yourself.
Who acts: Lying · What happens: lie, steal, make, speak · To what, where: part, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | VerbForm=Ger | 6 makes | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Lying | obl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stole | nsubj |
| 5 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 someone | acl:relcl |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 part | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 makes | parataxis |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 yourself | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 yourself | case |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 speak | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | for someone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | Lying | part of part | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary part=Product | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | infinitive | for yourself | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:30.
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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