Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 14
A win by cheating rarely feels like a real win; giving back what you did not earn often brings relief.
Who acts: win, you, giving, cheating · What happens: feel, give back, not earn, bring, win · To what, where: relief
This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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 (win, you, giving, cheating), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 win | det |
| 2 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 cheating | case |
| 4 | cheating | cheating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | nmod |
| 5 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 6 feels | advmod |
| 6 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 win | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 win | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 win | amod |
| 10 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feels | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 brings | csubj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 giving | advmod |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 giving | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 earn | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 earn | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 earn | advmod |
| 18 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 brings | advmod |
| 20 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feels | parataxis |
| 21 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brings | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a win by cheating | like a real win; rarely property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like win=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give back | gerund | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not earn | past · do-support | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring | present | giving | relief | often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent relief=Theme | |||
| 5 | win | cheating | nom win «event intransitive»: by=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:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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 ×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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