Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, sentence 5
For a child today: temptation often starts with doubting that a rule is for our good, owning up is braver than hiding and blaming, and jealousy must be stopped early before it grows.
Who acts: temptation, rule, owning, jealousy · What happens: start, doubt, be, own up, hide, blame · To what, where: jealousy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» 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 (temptation, rule, owning, jealousy), 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 | 8 starts | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 temptation | punct |
| 6 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 starts | nsubj |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 starts | advmod |
| 8 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 doubting | mark |
| 10 | doubting | doubt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 starts | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 good | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rule | det |
| 13 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 good | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 good | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 good | nmod:poss |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 doubting | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 braver | punct |
| 19 | owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 braver | csubj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 owning | compound:prt |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 braver | cop |
| 22 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 doubting | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 hiding | case |
| 24 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 braver | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blaming | cc |
| 26 | blaming | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 hiding | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stopped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stopped | cc |
| 29 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stopped | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 stopped | aux:pass |
| 32 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 braver | conj |
| 33 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 stopped | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 grows | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 grows | nsubj |
| 36 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 stopped | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | temptation | for a child today; often property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | doubt | gerund | temptation not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a rule | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | own up | gerund | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | owning | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hide | gerund | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | blame | gerund | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | stop | must · passive | jealousy | early property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | grow | present | jealousy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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