The check that settles it, sentence 37
Honest people can remember wrongly, especially when they want something to be true.
Who acts: Honest people, people · What happens: remember, want, be · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» 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 (Honest people, 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 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | aux |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 4 remember | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 10 want | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 want | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | advcl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 want | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 true | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 true | cop |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | can | Honest people | wrongly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | want | present | people | something | especially property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | people not said here | something not said here | true property | 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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.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): 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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