Trusting again, sentence 36
Many small lies can use up people's trust, so that even your true words are doubted.
Who acts: Many small lies, people, your · What happens: use up, doubt, trust, word · To what, where: trust, true words
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 (Many small lies, people, your), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lies | amod |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lies | amod |
| 3 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | aux |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 use | compound:prt |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trust | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 people | case |
| 9 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doubted | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 18 doubted | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 doubted | mark |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 words | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 doubted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 doubted | aux:pass |
| 18 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 use | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use up | can | Many small lies | people's trust | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Patient | ||||
| 2 | doubt | present · passive | your true words | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trust | people | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:36.
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 ×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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