Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 12

With a friend's harmless boast, have a quiet word in private rather than exposing him: "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given" (Proverbs 25:14).

Who acts: you, quiet word, clouds, friend · What happens: have, expose, be, boast, not give · To what, where: quiet word, honesty, one, Proverbs, gifts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics 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, quiet word, clouds, friend), 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	With	with	ADP	_	6 boast	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boast	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 friend	case
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boast	amod
6	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boast	punct
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 private	case
13	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	obl
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 exposing	advmod
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 exposing	mark
16	exposing	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 word	acl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 exposing	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 clouds	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 clouds	punct
20	Like	like	ADP	_	21 clouds	case
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wind	cc
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clouds	conj
24	without	without	ADP	_	25 rain	case
25	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clouds	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 one	cop
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 have	parataxis
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 boasts	nsubj
29	boasts	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 one	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 gifts	case
31	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 boasts	obl
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 given	advmod
33	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 gifts	acl
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 given	punct
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 Proverbs	punct
36	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 boasts	obl
37	25:14	25:14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 Proverbs	nmod
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 Proverbs	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	imperative	you not said here	a quiet word	with a friend's harmless boast	tree rules
2	expose	gerund	a quiet word not said here	honesty		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	clouds without rain and wind	one		tree rules
4	boast speech: other in a quote	present		Proverbs 25:14	of gifts	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not give in a quote	participle		gifts not said here		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	boast		a friend			nom boast «communication intransitive»: 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:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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