Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 35
Some family stories, like Santa watching, are play that children grow out of, not cheating.
Who acts: Santa, family stories, children · What happens: watch, be, grow out, not cheat · To what, where: play
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 (Santa, family stories, children), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 stories | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stories | compound |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 play | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Santa | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Santa | case |
| 6 | Santa | Santa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stories | nmod |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Santa | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stories | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 play | cop |
| 10 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 grow | obl |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 play | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 grow | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cheating | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 cheating | advmod |
| 18 | cheating | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 play | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | Santa not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | some family stories like Santa | play | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow out | present | children | of play | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not cheat | gerund | some family stories like Santa not said here | vn cheat-10.6.1 «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:35.
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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