Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 4

The way out is to own up early, use honest words for the same goal ("she can't come to the phone right now"), and tell someone you trust when "I'm fine" isn't true.

Who acts: way out, lie, you · What happens: be, use, not come, tell, trust, not be · To what, where: honest words, phone, someone · 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 (way out, lie, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 out	compound
3	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 own	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 own	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 own	mark
6	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 own	compound:prt
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 own	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 own	conj
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 goal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 goal	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 goal	amod
16	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obl
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
20	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 phone	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 phone	det
25	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	right	right	ADV	_	27 now	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 own	conj
33	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 tell	obj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 trust	nsubj
35	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 someone	acl:relcl
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 true	advmod
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 fine	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 fine	nsubj
39	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 fine	cop
40	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 true	advcl
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 fine	punct
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 true	cop
43	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 true	advmod
44	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tell	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 own	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	way out					early, own property	tree rules
2	use	infinitive	way out not said here	honest words				for the same goal	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for goal=Eventuality
3	not come in a quote	can	lie			the phone	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	way out not said here		someone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
5	trust	present	you						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	way out = out					fine property	tree rules
7	not is	present	way out not said here					true property	tree rules

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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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