Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 32

A rule with a made-up reason, like «the tablet needs a rest», is easier to follow when the real reason is given.

Who acts: tablet, rule · What happens: make up, need, be, follow, give · To what, where: rest, real reason

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 (tablet, rule), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rule	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 easier	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	8 reason	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reason	det
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reason	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rule	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 «	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 needs	mark
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 needs	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tablet	det
13	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needs	nsubj
14	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needs	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 needs	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 rule	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 easier	cop
20	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 follow	mark
22	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 easier	xcomp
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 given	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 reason	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reason	amod
26	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux:pass
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 follow	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 easier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	need in a quote	present	the tablet	a rest		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme
3	is	present	a rule with a made reason		easy property	tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive	a rule with a made reason not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	present · passive		the real reason		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:32.

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): R4-particle ×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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