Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 30
Real reasons are easier to follow, and most grown-ups laugh when caught.
Who acts: Real reasons, grown ups · What happens: be, follow, grow, laugh, catch
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 (Real reasons, grown ups), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reasons | amod |
| 2 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easier | cop |
| 4 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easier | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laugh | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laugh | cc |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 grown | advmod |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ups | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
| 12 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 laugh | nsubj |
| 13 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easier | conj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 caught | mark |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 laugh | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easier | 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 | Real reasons | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | Real reasons not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | laugh | present | grown ups | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | catch | participle | grown ups not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:30.
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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