Manners and kindness, sentence 16
Kindness often spreads, because people who are treated kindly are more likely to be kind to others.
Who acts: Kindness, people · What happens: spread, treat, be · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Kindness, 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 | Kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreads | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 spreads | advmod |
| 3 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 likely | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 likely | mark |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 likely | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 treated | aux:pass |
| 9 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 treated | advmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 likely | cop |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 likely | advmod |
| 13 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spreads | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kind | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 kind | cop |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 likely | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 others | case |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kind | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Kindness | often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | present · passive | people | kindly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | people | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | people not said here | to others; kind 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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:16.
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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