Lied to by someone you love, sentence 46

People sometimes lie about things they are ashamed of, like failing to stop a habit; saying it kindly can help them be honest.

Who acts: People, saying · What happens: lie, asham, fail, not stop, say, help · To what, where: People, habit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» 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 (People, saying), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 lie	advmod
3	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 things	case
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ashamed	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ashamed	aux:pass
8	ashamed	asham	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 things	acl:relcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 ashamed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 failing	punct
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 failing	mark
12	failing	fail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ashamed	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stop	mark
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 failing	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 habit	det
16	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stop	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 help	csubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saying	obj
20	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	22 help	advmod
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 honest	cop
25	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 help	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	present	People		about things; sometimes property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about thing=Location
2	asham	present · passive		People		tree rules
3	fail	gerund				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not stop	to-infinitive		a habit		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality habit=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	gerund		habit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	help	can	saying	People	kindly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
7	is	infinitive	People not said here		honest property	tree rules

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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:46.

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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