Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 27
Mocking what someone holds dear, such as their faith, to upset them is unkind.
Who acts: someone, Mocking · What happens: mock, hold, upset, be · To what, where: talk
This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (someone, Mocking), 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 | Mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 unkind | csubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 holds | obj |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mocking | ccomp |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 holds | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 faith | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 faith | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 faith | nmod:poss |
| 10 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 upset | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 upset | mark |
| 13 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mocking | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 upset | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 unkind | cop |
| 16 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 unkind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mock | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hold | present | someone | dear property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | upset | to-infinitive | talk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Mocking | unkind 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:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:27.
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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