Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 40
Some lies are told long ago to protect a child; finding out can still be upsetting, and talking about it helps.
Who acts: finding, talking · What happens: tell, protect, find out, be, talk, help · To what, where: lies, child · 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 (finding, talking), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 lies | det |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 ago | advmod |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 protect | mark |
| 8 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 protect | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 upsetting | punct |
| 12 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 upsetting | csubj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 finding | compound:prt |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 upsetting | aux |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 upsetting | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 upsetting | cop |
| 17 | upsetting | upsetting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 helps | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 helps | cc |
| 20 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 helps | csubj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 talking | obl |
| 23 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 upsetting | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | some lies | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | a child | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | find out | gerund | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | can | finding | still | upsetting property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | talk | gerund | about lie | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||||
| 6 | help | present | talking | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.lesson:40.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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