My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 3
So there are two traps: believing every boast, or calling the boaster a liar and starting a fight.
Who acts: two traps · What happens: be, believe, call, start · To what, where: boast, boaster, fight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two traps), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 are | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 traps | nummod |
| 5 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 believing | punct |
| 7 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 traps | acl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 boast | det |
| 9 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 calling | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 calling | cc |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 believing | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boaster | det |
| 14 | boaster | boaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 liar | det |
| 16 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 starting | cc |
| 18 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 calling | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fight | det |
| 20 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 starting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | two traps | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | gerund | two traps not said here | every boast | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boast=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | two traps not said here | the boaster | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boaster=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | start | gerund | two traps not said here | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
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:3.
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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