The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 16
Things gained by stealing rarely make people happy, because guilt spoils them.
Who acts: Things, guilt · What happens: gain, steal, make, spoil · To what, where: Things, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (Things, guilt), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 2 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Things | acl |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 stealing | mark |
| 4 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gained | advcl |
| 5 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoils | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 spoils | mark |
| 11 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoils | nsubj |
| 12 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spoils | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | participle | Things not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | steal | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | Things | people | happy, rarely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | |||
| 4 | spoil | present | guilt | people | 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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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