Forgiving, sentence 29
Callum's mate in Glasgow kept telling lies — about his games, his dad, his football.
Who acts: mate · What happens: keep, tell · To what, where: lies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (mate), 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 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Callum | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Glasgow | case |
| 5 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 telling | obj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 games | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 games | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 games | nmod:poss |
| 12 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lies | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dad | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dad | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 games | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 football | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 football | nmod:poss |
| 18 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 games | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Callum's mate in Glasgow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Callum's mate in Glasgow not said here | lies | about mate's games and mate's dad and mate's football | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient about game=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:454-forgiving.lesson:29.
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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