Respect: how it is earned, sentence 29
Someone can respect you a little and still keep their distance; trust takes longer than respect.
Who acts: Someone, trust · What happens: respect, keep, take · To what, where: you, distance
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 (Someone, trust), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 respect | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 respect | aux |
| 3 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 respect | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 respect | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 keep | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 keep | advmod |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 respect | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 distance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 takes | punct |
| 13 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 takes | nsubj |
| 14 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 respect | parataxis |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 takes | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 respect | case |
| 17 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 longer | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 respect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | can | Someone | you | a little obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | Someone not said here | rules's distance | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | present | trust | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:29.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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