When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 20
Small excuses repeated become a habit that people stop believing.
Who acts: Small excuses, people · What happens: repeat, become, stop, believe · To what, where: Small excuses, habit
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» of the everyday 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 (Small excuses, people), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 excuses | amod |
| 2 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 excuses | acl |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 habit | det |
| 6 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stop | obj |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 habit | acl |
| 10 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stop | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | participle | Small excuses not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | become | present | Small excuses | a habit | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | people | a habit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | gerund | people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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:everyday:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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