Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 37
Grown-ups sometimes hide sadness to protect children; you can say «You don't look fine.
Who acts: Grown ups, you · What happens: grow, hide, protect, say, not look · To what, where: sadness, children · 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, you), 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 | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 5 hide | advmod |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 protect | mark |
| 8 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hide | advcl |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 protect | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | aux |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hide | parataxis |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 look | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 look | advmod |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 say | ccomp |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 look | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hide | present | Grown ups | sadness | sometimes property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Patient | |||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | Grown ups not said here | children | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | can | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not look in a quote | present · do-support | You | fine property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:37.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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