Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 29
When you catch a little lie, you can say so kindly and ask for the real reason.
Who acts: you · What happens: catch, say, ask · To what, where: little 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 (you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 catch | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lie | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lie | amod |
| 6 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 catch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 catch | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 kindly | advmod |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 say | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 reason | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reason | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 reason | amod |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | you | a little lie | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | you | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | for the real reason | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:29.
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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