Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 17

Gratitude means noticing good things and saying thank you; grateful people tend to be happier and kinder.

Who acts: Gratitude, grateful people · What happens: mean, notice, say, thank, tend, be · To what, where: good things, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» 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 (Gratitude, grateful people), 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	Gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 noticing	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saying	cc
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 noticing	conj
8	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thank	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tend	punct
11	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tend	nsubj
13	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	16 happier	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 happier	cop
16	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 tend	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kinder	cc
18	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 happier	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Gratitude				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	notice not said to happen	gerund	Gratitude not said here	good things			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Gratitude not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thank speech: thank	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	tend	present	grateful people				vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	is	to-infinitive	grateful people not said here			happy property	tree rules
7	be		grateful people not said here				tree rules

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:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:17.

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 ×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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