Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 41
A surprise can feel like a lie while it is happening, so a kind surprise should not drag on too long.
Who acts: surprise, it, kind surprise · What happens: feel, happen, not drag on
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 (surprise, it, kind surprise), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 surprise | det |
| 2 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 lie | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lie | det |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 happening | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 happening | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happening | aux |
| 11 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 feel | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drag | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 drag | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 surprise | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 surprise | amod |
| 16 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drag | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 drag | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 drag | advmod |
| 19 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 drag | compound:prt |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 drag | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | a surprise | like a lie | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like lie=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | present · progressive | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not drag on | should | a kind surprise | long property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:41.
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): R7-rel-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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