Respect: how it is earned, sentence 26
An excuse for hurting someone usually makes people think worse of you, not better.
Who acts: excuse, people · What happens: hurt, make, think · To what, where: someone, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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 (excuse, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 excuse | det |
| 2 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 hurting | mark |
| 4 | hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 excuse | acl |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 hurting | obj |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 makes | advmod |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 think | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 worse | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | gerund | a excuse not said here | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a excuse | people | good, usually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | infinitive | people not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «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:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:26.
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): 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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