Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 31

Grown-ups sometimes tell little lies to avoid an argument, to save money or because they are tired.

Who acts: Grown ups, ups · What happens: tell, avoid, save, be · To what, where: little lies, argument, money · 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 (Grown ups, 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	Grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ups	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	nsubj
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lies	amod
7	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 avoid	mark
9	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	advcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 argument	det
11	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 avoid	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 save	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 save	mark
14	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 avoid	conj
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 save	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 tired	cc
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 tired	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tired	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	cop
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 save	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Grown ups	little lies	sometimes property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
2	avoid	to-infinitive	Grown ups not said here	a argument		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent argument=Location
3	save	to-infinitive	Grown ups not said here	money		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	is	present	ups = up		tired 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:31.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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