Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 26

Mum thought, then said: «It's a white lie, to be kind.

Who acts: Mum, neighbour · What happens: think, say, be · To what, where: white lie · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mum, neighbour), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lie	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	amod
12	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	16 kind	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 kind	cop
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Mum				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	neighbour	a white lie			tree rules
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	neighbour not said here			kind 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:26.

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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