Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 14
Praise or an award you did not earn rarely feels good, because you know the truth; honesty makes the next award feel real.
Who acts: you, Praise, honesty, next award · What happens: not earn, feel, know, make · To what, where: award, truth, next award
This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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 (you, Praise, honesty, next award), 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 | Praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 award | cc |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 award | det |
| 4 | award | award | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Praise | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 earn | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 earn | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 earn | advmod |
| 8 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 award | acl:relcl |
| 9 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 8 earn | advmod |
| 10 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feels | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feels | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 makes | punct |
| 19 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 makes | nsubj |
| 20 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feels | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 award | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 award | amod |
| 23 | award | award | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 makes | obj |
| 24 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feel | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not earn | past · do-support | you | a award not said here | rarely property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent award=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | present | Praise or a award | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | present | you | the truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | present | honesty | the next award | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | the next award not said here | real property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:14.
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): R7-rel-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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