Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 6

Psychologists find lies often need more lies to protect them; owning up early ("I made it up, sorry") ends the web.

Who acts: Psychologists, lies, fairy, owning · What happens: find, need, protect, own up, make up, end · To what, where: more lies, Psychologists, call, web · 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 (Psychologists, lies, fairy, owning), 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	Psychologists	psychologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	ccomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 lies	amod
7	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 protect	mark
9	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 protect	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct
12	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 ends	csubj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 owning	compound:prt
14	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 owning	advmod
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 owning	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 made	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sorry	punct
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	xcomp
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
25	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 web	det
27	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ends	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	present	Psychologists			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	need	present	lies	more lies	often property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme
3	protect	to-infinitive	lies not said here	Psychologists = psychologist		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
4	own up	gerund			early property	tree rules
5	make up in a quote	past	fairy	call	sorry property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
6	end	present	owning	the web		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality web=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:6.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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