My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 2
Most are not lies meant to trick you: they show pride, love, or the wish to sound interesting to a new friend.
Who acts: Most, boasts · What happens: not be, mean, trick, show, sound · To what, where: lies, you, pride
This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language 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 (Most, boasts), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 lies | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lies | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lies | advmod |
| 4 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lies | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trick | mark |
| 7 | trick | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 meant | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 trick | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 show | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 show | nsubj |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lies | parataxis |
| 12 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pride | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 wish | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wish | det |
| 18 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sound | mark |
| 20 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | acl |
| 21 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sound | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 friend | det |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 friend | amod |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 interesting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Most | lies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | participle | lies not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trick not said to happen | to-infinitive | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||||
| 4 | show | present | boasts = boast | pride and love | the wish obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pride=Recipient | |||
| 5 | sound | to-infinitive | boasts = boast not said here | interesting property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:2.
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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