The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 11
Saying mean things about someone behind their back, and being "two-faced" (nice to their face, mean behind their back), is a kind of bullying; a real sorry and changed behaviour matter most.
Who acts: Saying, real sorry behaviour · What happens: say, be, mean, change, matter · To what, where: mean things, back, kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (Saying, real sorry behaviour), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 kind | csubj |
| 2 | mean | meantime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Saying | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 things | nmod |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 someone | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 faced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 faced | cc |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 faced | cop |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 faced | punct |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 faced | dislocated |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 two | punct |
| 15 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 faced | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 nice | punct |
| 18 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nice | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mean | punct |
| 23 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 nice | parataxis |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mean | obl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 nice | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kind | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 kind | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 kind | det |
| 31 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 bullying | case |
| 33 | bullying | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kind | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 kind | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 behaviour | det |
| 36 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 behaviour | amod |
| 37 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 behaviour | amod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 changed | cc |
| 39 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 sorry | conj |
| 40 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 matter | nsubj |
| 41 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 kind | parataxis |
| 42 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 matter | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | mean things | about someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | two dislocated; faced property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | infinitive | sign's back | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Saying | a kind | of bullying | tree rules | |||
| 5 | change | participle | a real sorry behaviour not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | matter | present | a real sorry behaviour | vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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