Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 17
Grown-ups can be wrong, and some lie, just like children; being older does not make something true.
Who acts: Grown ups, some · What happens: be, lie, not make · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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 (Grown ups, some), 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 | Grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ups | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrong | cop |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lie | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 lie | nsubj |
| 10 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 children | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 children | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lie | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrong | punct |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 older | cop |
| 17 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 make | csubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 make | advmod |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrong | parataxis |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 something | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Grown ups | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | some | like children | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | old property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not make | present · do-support | something | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product |
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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:17.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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