I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 20
When you lose a fair bet, keeping your word is the honest thing to do.
Who acts: you, keeping, your · What happens: lose, keep, be, do, word · To what, where: fair bet, word, honest thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths 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 (you, keeping, your), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 lose | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bet | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bet | amod |
| 6 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 8 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 thing | csubj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thing | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | you | a fair bet | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | your word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | keeping | the honest thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:20.
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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