Trusting again, sentence 39
Families where telling the truth is safe tend to have fewer lies.
Who acts: telling, Families · What happens: tell, be, tend, have · To what, where: truth, fewer lies · 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 (telling, Families), 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 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tend | nsubj |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 safe | advmod |
| 3 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 safe | csubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 telling | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | cop |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Families | acl:relcl |
| 8 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tend | xcomp |
| 11 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 lies | amod |
| 12 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tend | 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 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | telling | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tend | present | Families | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | Families not said here | fewer lies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Patient |
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:39.
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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