The check that settles it, sentence 42
Sometimes a person isn't lying but mistaken, like someone who saw a lookalike.
Who acts: person · What happens: not lie, see · To what, where: lookalike
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 (person), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 6 lying | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lying | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lying | advmod |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 mistaken | cc |
| 8 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lying | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 someone | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 someone | case |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 lying | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 someone | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lookalike | det |
| 15 | lookalike | lookalike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lie | present · progressive | a person | like someone; sometimes property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a lookalike | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lookalike=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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:42.
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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