Trusting again, sentence 6
Trust is built in small steps, like a wall of bricks: one honest act at a time.
What happens: build · To what, where: Trust
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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: 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 | Trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 steps | case |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steps | amod |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wall | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bricks | case |
| 12 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wall | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 act | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 act | nummod |
| 15 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 act | amod |
| 16 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bricks | appos |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 act | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | Trust | in small steps; like a wall of bricks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:455-trusting-again.lesson:6.
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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