Trusting again, sentence 12

Zoe started telling the truth even when it was awkward, and after a few months Dad said «I believe you», and Zoe nearly cried.

Who acts: Zoe, truth, Dad · What happens: start, tell, be, say, believe, cry · To what, where: truth, 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, truth, Dad), 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 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 when	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 awkward	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 awkward	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awkward	cop
10	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 started	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 months	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 months	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 months	amod
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	obl
17	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 believe	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 believe	nsubj
21	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 believe	obj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 believe	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cried	cc
26	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 cried	nsubj
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	28 cried	advmod
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	Zoe				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Zoe not said here	the truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	is	past	truth			awkward property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Dad		month		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	believe in a quote	present	Dad	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
6	cry speech: express	past	Zoe			nearly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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:455-trusting-again.lesson:12.

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): R6-punct-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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