Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 17
A 2010 study found most people told few lies or none on a given day, and a small group told half of all the lies; "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2).
Who acts: 2010 study, most people, small group, crowd · What happens: find, tell, give, not follow, do · To what, where: few lies, half, crowd, wrong · 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 (2010 study, most people, small group, crowd), 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 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 study | nummod |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | ccomp |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lies | amod |
| 9 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 none | cc |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 lies | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 group | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 group | amod |
| 20 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 told | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lies | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 lies | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lies | det |
| 26 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 half | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 follow | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 follow | punct |
| 29 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 follow | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 follow | advmod |
| 31 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 crowd | det |
| 33 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 follow | obj |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 doing | mark |
| 35 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 crowd | acl |
| 36 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 doing | obj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 crowd | punct |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 Exodus | punct |
| 39 | Exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 crowd | appos |
| 40 | 23:2 | 23:2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 Exodus | flat |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 Exodus | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 2010 study | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | most people | few lies | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | a small group | half of all lies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent half=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not follow in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the crowd | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | gerund | the crowd not said here | wrong | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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