Easter and Pentecost, sentence 5
For a child today Easter means hope: death and failure are not the end, honest doubts are met with patience, and anyone who has let a friend down can start again.
Who acts: Easter, anyone · What happens: mean, not be, meet, let down, start · To what, where: hope, end, honest doubts, friend
This is a sentence of the lesson «Easter and Pentecost» 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 (Easter, anyone), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 death | punct |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hope | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 failure | cc |
| 11 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 death | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 end | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 end | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 17 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 doubts | amod |
| 18 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 met | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | aux:pass |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 end | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 patience | case |
| 22 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 start | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 25 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 start | nsubj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 let | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 let | aux |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 friend | det |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 let | compound:prt |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 start | aux |
| 33 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | conj |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 start | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Easter | hope and death and failure | for a child today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot hope=Theme for child=Attribute | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | the end | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | present · passive | honest doubts | with patience | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with patience=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | let down | present · perfect | a friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||||
| 5 | start | can | anyone | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:019-easter-and-pentecost.lesson:5.
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 ×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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