Covering for a friend, sentence 7

You don't have to tell on a friend for every small thing, but lying for them is different, and it often drags you in.

Who acts: You, lying, friend · What happens: not have, tell, lie, be, drag in · To what, where: 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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 friend	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 thing	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 thing	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 different	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 different	cc
16	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 different	csubj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lying	obl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 different	cop
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drags	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drags	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drags	nsubj
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 drags	advmod
25	drags	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 drags	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	25 drags	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	You			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	You not said here		on a friend; for every small thing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	gerund			for them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	lying		different property	tree rules
5	drag in	present	friend	you	often property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:7.

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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