Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 1

Charlie told his class he'd been to Disneyland; he hadn't, and now kids keep asking about the rides, so every answer needs a new lie, like a web that gets bigger and stickier.

Who acts: Charlie, kids, answer, web · What happens: tell, be, not have, keep, ask, need · To what, where: class, new lie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» 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 (Charlie, kids, answer, web), 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	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 class	nmod:poss
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Disneyland	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Disneyland	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 Disneyland	cop
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Disneyland	case
9	Disneyland	Disneyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 had	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 keep	advmod
17	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	nsubj
18	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
19	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 keep	xcomp
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 rides	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rides	det
22	rides	ride	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 asking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 needs	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 needs	advmod
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 answer	det
26	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needs	nsubj
27	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 asking	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lie	det
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lie	amod
30	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needs	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 web	punct
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 web	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 web	det
34	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needs	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 gets	nsubj
36	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 web	acl:relcl
37	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 gets	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stickier	cc
39	stickier	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 bigger	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Charlie		Charlie's class			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient
2	is	past · perfect	Charlie				to Disneyland	tree rules
3	not have	past	Charlie					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	keep	present	kids			now		tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	kids not said here				about the rides	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about ride=Topic
6	need	present	every answer	a new lie			like a web	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme
7	get	present	a web				big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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