Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 13
Dodging a question isn't the same as lying — but it can hide things.
Who acts: Dodging, question · What happens: dodge, not be, lie, hide · To what, where: question, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» 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 (Dodging, question), 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 | Dodging | dodge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 same | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dodging | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 same | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 same | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 lying | mark |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 same | advcl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hide | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hide | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hide | aux |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 same | conj |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hide | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dodge | gerund | a question | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent question=Location | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | Dodging | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Dodging not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hide | can | question | things | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:13.
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 ×1. 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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