White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 0

A white lie is a small lie told to be nice, like saying "I love it!" about a present you secretly think is awful.

Who acts: white lie, small lie, I, you · What happens: be, tell, say, love, think · To what, where: small lie, lie, present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» 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 (white lie, small lie, I, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lie	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lie	amod
3	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lie	amod
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lie	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 nice	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 nice	cop
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 saying	mark
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 love	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 love	nsubj
17	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 love	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 love	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 love	punct
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 present	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 present	det
23	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
25	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	26 think	advmod
26	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 present	acl:relcl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 awful	cop
28	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 love	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a white lie	a small lie		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		a small lie not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	a small lie not said here		nice property	tree rules
4	say speech: express	gerund			about a present	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	love in a quote	present	I	lie		tree rules
6	think speech: other	present	you	a present not said here	secretly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot present=Theme
7	is	present			awful property	tree rules

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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:0.

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, R8-pos-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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