Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 33
Crossing your eyes does not make them stay that way; it is an old myth.
Who acts: Crossing, eyes, rule · What happens: cross, not make, not stay, be · To what, where: eyes, way, old myth
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 (Crossing, eyes, 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 | Crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 make | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Crossing | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 myth | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 myth | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 myth | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 myth | amod |
| 16 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | gerund | your eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | Crossing | eyes = eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not stay | infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | that way | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | rule | a old myth | 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:33.
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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