Covering for a friend, sentence 33
Saying something technically true to hide the truth is still a kind of trick.
Who acts: Saying · What happens: say, hide, be · To what, where: something, truth, kind · 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 (Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 kind | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | technically | technically | ADV | _ | 4 true | advmod |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hide | mark |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 kind | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 kind | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 trick | case |
| 14 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | the truth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Saying | a kind | still | of trick | tree rules |
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:33.
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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