Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 2
Scientists at University College London found in 2016 that when people told small self-serving lies again and again, the brain's alarm centre reacted less each time, and the lies grew bigger.
Who acts: Scientists, people, alarm centre, lies · What happens: find, tell, serve, react, grow · To what, where: 2016, small serving lies · 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 (Scientists, people, alarm centre, lies), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 University | case |
| 3 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Scientists | nmod |
| 4 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 University | flat |
| 5 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 University | flat |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 2016 | case |
| 8 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 found | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 reacted | mark |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 told | advmod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reacted | advcl |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lies | amod |
| 14 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 serving | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 self | punct |
| 16 | serving | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 lies | amod |
| 17 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 told | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 again | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 again | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reacted | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brain | det |
| 23 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 centre | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 brain | case |
| 25 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 centre | compound |
| 26 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reacted | nsubj |
| 27 | reacted | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | ccomp |
| 28 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 reacted | advmod |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reacted | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grew | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 grew | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lies | det |
| 34 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 grew | nsubj |
| 35 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reacted | conj |
| 36 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 grew | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Scientists at University | 2016 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | people | small serving lies | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | |||
| 3 | serve | gerund | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | react | past | the brain's alarm centre | time | less property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | grow | past | the lies | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4. 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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