Trusting again, sentence 11

Zoe kept lying about little things — sweets, homework, chores — until her dad said, «I want to believe you, but I can't yet.» That hurt.

Who acts: Zoe, dad, That · What happens: keep, lie, say, want, believe, hurt · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (Zoe, dad, That), 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	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 things	case
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 sweets	punct
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 things	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 homework	punct
10	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweets	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chores	punct
12	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sweets	conj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 sweets	punct
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dad	nmod:poss
16	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 believe	mark
23	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 believe	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ca	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 ca	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 ca	nsubj
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 want	conj
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 yet	advmod
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 ca	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 hurt	punct
33	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 hurt	nsubj
34	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Zoe			tree rules
2	lie	gerund	Zoe not said here		about little things	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about thing=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Zoe's dad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want in a quote	present	Zoe's dad = dad			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	believe not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Zoe's dad = dad not said here	you		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
6	hurt	past	That			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:455-trusting-again.lesson:11.

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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