Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 15
Peter lied out of fear in a moment, wept and turned back (Luke 22:62); Ananias and Sapphira planned their lie, and Sapphira repeated it when given a plain chance to tell the truth (Acts 5:8).
Who acts: Peter, Ananias, Sapphira · What happens: lie, weep, turn back, plan, repeat, give · To what, where: fear, lie, plain chance, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics 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 (Peter, Ananias, Sapphira), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lied | nsubj |
| 2 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lied | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wept | punct |
| 10 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lied | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wept | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Luke | punct |
| 15 | Luke | Luke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | parataxis |
| 16 | 22:62 | 22:62 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Luke | flat |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Luke | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 planned | punct |
| 19 | Ananias | Ananias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 planned | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Sapphira | cc |
| 21 | Sapphira | Sapphira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ananias | conj |
| 22 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lied | parataxis |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lie | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 planned | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 repeated | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 repeated | cc |
| 27 | Sapphira | Sapphira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 repeated | nsubj |
| 28 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 planned | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 repeated | obj |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 given | mark |
| 31 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 repeated | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 chance | det |
| 33 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chance | amod |
| 34 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 given | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 tell | mark |
| 36 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 chance | acl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 truth | det |
| 38 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tell | obj |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 Acts | punct |
| 40 | Acts | Acts | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 truth | appos |
| 41 | 5:8 | 5:8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Acts | flat |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 Acts | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lied | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Peter | fear | moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out fear=Location | |||
| 2 | weep | past | Peter not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn back | past | Peter not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | plan | past | Ananias and Sapphira | Ananias's lie | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | ||||
| 5 | repeat | past | Sapphira | lie | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | give | participle | Sapphira not said here | a plain chance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Sapphira not said here | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | lie | Ananias | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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