Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 20

Sam's older brother spent the birthday money Grandma posted and said «It never came, mate.» Grandma said «I definitely posted it.» Sam felt betrayed by his own brother, which was worse than losing the money.

Who acts: older brother, Grandma, money, Sam, own brother · What happens: spend, post, say, not come, feel, betray · To what, where: birthday money, money · 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 (older brother, Grandma, money, Sam), 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
7	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 money	compound
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obj
9	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 posted	nsubj
10	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 money	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	conj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	vocative
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	parataxis
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 posted	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 posted	nsubj
25	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	26 posted	advmod
26	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 posted	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 posted	punct
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 posted	punct
30	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 felt	nsubj
31	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	parataxis
32	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 felt	xcomp
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 brother	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 brother	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 brother	amod
36	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 betrayed	obl:agent
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 worse	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 worse	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 worse	cop
40	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 brother	acl:relcl
41	than	than	SCONJ	_	42 losing	mark
42	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 worse	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 money	det
44	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 losing	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Sam's older brother	the birthday money		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
2	post	past	Grandma	the birthday money not said here		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Sam's older brother not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not come in a quote	past	money		mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Grandma			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	post in a quote	past	Grandma	money	definitely property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	feel	past	Sam			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	betray	participle	Sam not said here			tree rules
9	is	past	Sam's own brother		bad property	tree rules
10	lose	gerund	Sam's own brother not said here	the money		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

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:20.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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