Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 5
Pretend play like the tooth fairy is shared imagination; for a little one it is the parents' call, and if he asks you seriously, send him to his parents.
Who acts: Pretend play, play, fairy · What happens: share, be, ask, send · To what, where: shared imagination, call, you, fairy, parents
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 (Pretend play, play, fairy), 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 | Pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 play | amod |
| 2 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imagination | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 fairy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 5 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fairy | compound |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 play | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 imagination | cop |
| 8 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 imagination | amod |
| 9 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 call | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 call | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 call | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 parents | det |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 call | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 parents | case |
| 20 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imagination | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 send | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 send | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 asks | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asks | nsubj |
| 25 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 send | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 asks | obj |
| 27 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 25 asks | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asks | punct |
| 29 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 imagination | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 send | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 parents | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 parents | nmod:poss |
| 33 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 send | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 send | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Pretend play like the tooth fairy | shared imagination and the parents's call | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | play | the parents's call | for a little one | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | fairy | you | seriously property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 5 | send | infinitive | fairy | fairy's parents | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to parent=Destination |
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:5.
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): 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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