Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly, sentence 4

If a grown-up asks you to fib to save money, you can gently say the truth, like "Dad, I'm 12 though", without being rude.

Who acts: grown up, you, I · What happens: grow, ask, fib, save, say, be · To what, where: you, money, truth, 12 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» 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 (grown up, you, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 asks	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 up	det
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 up	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	nsubj
6	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asks	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fib	mark
9	fib	fib	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asks	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 save	mark
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fib	advcl
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 save	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	gently	gently	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truth	det
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Dad	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 Dad	case
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Dad	punct
23	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 say	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 12	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 12	nsubj
26	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 12	cop
27	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 say	obl:unmarked
28	though	though	ADV	_	27 12	advmod
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 12	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rude	punct
31	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 rude	mark
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 rude	cop
33	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 say	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	a grown up		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fib not said to happen	to-infinitive	a grown up not said here				tree rules
4	save	to-infinitive	a grown up not said here	money			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
5	say speech: assert	can	you	the truth		gently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
6	is a in a quote	present	I	12		though property	tree rules
7	is	gerund	you not said here			rude 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:096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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