Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 14

Lying to parents about where you are scares them, because they need to know you are safe; the lie often hurts more than the place you went.

Who acts: you, parents, lie · What happens: lie, be, need, know, hurt, go · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» 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 (you, parents, lie), 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	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 scares	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 parents	case
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lying	obl
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 scares	mark
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 scares	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 scares	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scares	cop
8	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scares	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 need	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
13	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scares	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 know	mark
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 need	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 safe	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 safe	cop
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 know	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 hurts	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lie	det
21	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hurts	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 hurts	advmod
23	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scares	conj
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 hurts	advmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hurts	obl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 place	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 scares	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund			to parents	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you		scare property	tree rules
3	need	present	parents = parent			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	you		safe property	tree rules
6	hurt	present	the lie		than the place; often property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	go	past	you	the place not said here		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme

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:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:14.

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, 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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