Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 15
A 2016 study at University College London found the part of the brain that sounds an alarm reacted less to each repeated lie; Aristotle said we become what we repeatedly do.
Who acts: 2016 study, brain, Aristotle, we · What happens: find, sound, react, repeat, say, become · To what, where: part, alarm · 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 (2016 study, brain, Aristotle, we), 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 study | det |
| 2 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 study | nummod |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 University | case |
| 5 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 study | nmod |
| 6 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 University | flat |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 University | flat |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brain | det |
| 13 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sounds | nsubj |
| 15 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brain | acl:relcl |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 alarm | det |
| 17 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sounds | obj |
| 18 | reacted | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | ccomp |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 reacted | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 lie | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 lie | det |
| 22 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 lie | amod |
| 23 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reacted | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | Aristotle | Aristotle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | parataxis |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 become | nsubj |
| 28 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | ccomp |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 do | obj |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 do | nsubj |
| 31 | repeatedly | repeatedly | ADV | _ | 32 do | advmod |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 become | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a 2016 study at University | the part of the brain | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent part=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | the brain | a alarm | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alarm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | react | past | to each repeated lie; less property | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lie=Theme | |||||
| 4 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Aristotle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | become | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do | present | we | repeatedly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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: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): 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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