Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 13
An embarrassing truth is often funny rather than hurtful, like "the dog got the pasty before me!"
Who acts: embarrassing truth, dog · What happens: be, get · To what, where: pasty
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 (embarrassing truth, dog), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 2 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 truth | amod |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 funny | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 funny | cop |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 funny | advmod |
| 6 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 hurtful | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 rather | fixed |
| 9 | hurtful | hurtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 funny | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 got | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 funny | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pasty | det |
| 17 | pasty | pasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 got | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 funny | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 funny | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a embarrassing truth | funny, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a embarrassing truth not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | the dog | the pasty | before the vicar = vicar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pasty=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:religion-ethics:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:13.
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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