Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 11
Jack trained all summer because his coach said he'd «definitely» be in the team; the coach picked someone else and said «I never promised anything.» Jack's dad said: «He shouldn't have said it.
Who acts: Jack, coach, dad · What happens: train, say, be, pick, not promise, not say · To what, where: team, someone, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being lied to and how it feels» 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 (Jack, coach, dad), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trained | nsubj |
| 2 | trained | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 summer | det |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trained | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coach | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trained | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 team | nsubj |
| 10 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 team | aux |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 11 « | advmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 team | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 team | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 team | det |
| 17 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 picked | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coach | det |
| 20 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 picked | nsubj |
| 21 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trained | parataxis |
| 22 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 picked | obj |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 someone | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 picked | conj |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 promised | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 promised | nsubj |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 promised | advmod |
| 29 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 promised | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 picked | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 33 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 dad | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Jack | case |
| 35 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 said | nsubj |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 picked | conj |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 said | punct |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 39 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 said | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 said | aux |
| 41 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 said | advmod |
| 42 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 said | aux |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 said | ccomp |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 said | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | past | Jack | summer | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack's coach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | would | coach | the team | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick | past | the coach | someone | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the coach not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not promise speech: promise in a quote | past | the coach = coach | anything | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Jack's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | not say speech: assert in a quote | should · perfect | dad | team | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.lesson:11.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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