The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 34
Covering for a sibling is a kind of loyalty, but lies usually come out.
Who acts: Covering, lies · What happens: cover, be, come out · To what, where: kind
This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Covering, lies), 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 | Covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kind | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 sibling | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sibling | det |
| 4 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Covering | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 loyalty | case |
| 9 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 12 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | for a sibling | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Covering | a kind | of loyalty | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come out | present | lies | out, usually property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:34.
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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