Owning up when it is hard, sentence 7
Letting someone believe something false on purpose, like Dad being cross with "some idiot" in a car park, is close to lying.
Who acts: someone, Dad, Letting · What happens: let, believe, be, lie · To what, where: someone, something
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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 (someone, Dad, Letting), 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 | Letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 close | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Letting | obj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Letting | xcomp |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 believe | obj |
| 5 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 purpose | case |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 false | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cross | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 cross | mark |
| 10 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cross | nsubj |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cross | cop |
| 12 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 believe | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 idiot | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 idiot | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 idiot | det |
| 16 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cross | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 idiot | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 park | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 park | det |
| 20 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 park | compound |
| 21 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 idiot | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Letting | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 close | cop |
| 24 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 26 lying | mark |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 close | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 close | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | gerund | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | someone not said here | something | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | Dad | with some idiot in a car park; cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Letting | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | Letting not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:7.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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