Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 6

Grown-ups tell little lies too, usually to make life easier or to avoid a row.

Who acts: Grown ups · What happens: grow, tell, make, avoid · To what, where: little lies, row · 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), 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	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lies	amod
6	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 make	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	advcl
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 easier	obj
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 make	xcomp
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 avoid	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 avoid	mark
16	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 row	det
18	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 avoid	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	Grown ups	little lies		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
3	make	to-infinitive	Grown ups not said here		easy, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	avoid	to-infinitive	Grown ups not said here	a row		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent row=Location

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:6.

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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