Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 20
Some lies are to protect you or to be polite.
Who acts: lies · What happens: be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 (lies), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 lies | det |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 protect | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 protect | mark |
| 5 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 protect | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 polite | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 polite | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 polite | cop |
| 10 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 protect | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some lies | protect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | some lies not said here | polite property | 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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:20.
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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