Stories that change, sentence 43

Too much swearing and promising about a small thing can be a sign of lying; truthful people often simply say «No».

Who acts: much swearing, truthful people · What happens: promise, be, say · To what, where: sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (much swearing, truthful people), 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	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swearing	amod
3	swearing	swearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sign	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 promising	cc
5	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 swearing	conj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 thing	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promising	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sign	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 sign	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sign	det
13	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 lying	case
15	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sign	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 people	punct
17	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 say	nsubj
19	often	often	ADV	_	21 say	advmod
20	simply	simply	ADV	_	21 say	advmod
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sign	parataxis
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
23	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	21 say	ccomp
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 No	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sign	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	gerund	much swearing not said here		about a small thing	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	can	much swearing	a sign	of lying	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	truthful people		often, simply property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:43.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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