Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 5

For a child today: doing right can mean being different from everyone around you, a promise is a serious thing, and showing off to be the greatest tends to split people apart.

Who acts: doing, promise, serious thing · What happens: do, mean, be, show off, tend, split · To what, where: everyone, serious thing, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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 (doing, promise, serious thing), 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	9 mean	obl
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	nmod:unmarked
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 mean	csubj
7	right	right	ADV	_	6 doing	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tends	parataxis
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 different	cop
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mean	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 everyone	case
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 different	obl
14	around	around	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 everyone	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thing	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 promise	det
18	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thing	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tends	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 showing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 showing	cc
25	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 tends	csubj
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 showing	compound:prt
27	to	to	PART	_	30 greatest	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 greatest	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 greatest	det
30	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 showing	ccomp
31	tends	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	to	to	PART	_	33 split	mark
33	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tends	xcomp
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 split	obj
35	apart	apart	ADV	_	33 split	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	gerund				right property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	can	doing			for a child today	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute
3	is not said to happen	gerund	doing not said here		everyone	different property	tree rules
4	is a	present	a promise	a serious thing			tree rules
5	show off	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	to-infinitive				great property	tree rules
7	tend	present	a serious thing				tree rules
8	split	to-infinitive	a serious thing not said here	people		apart property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

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:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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