Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 7
In the fable by Aesop, an ancient Greek teller of animal stories, the boy who cried wolf was not believed when a real wolf came.
Who acts: boy, real wolf · What happens: cry, not believe, come · To what, where: wolf, boy, fable
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 (boy, real wolf), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fable | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fable | det |
| 3 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 believed | obl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Aesop | case |
| 5 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fable | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teller | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 teller | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teller | amod |
| 9 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teller | amod |
| 10 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Aesop | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stories | case |
| 12 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stories | compound |
| 13 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 teller | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fable | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 boy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 believed | aux:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 believed | advmod |
| 22 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wolf | det |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wolf | amod |
| 26 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 believed | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the boy | wolf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not believe | past · passive | the boy | the fable by Aesop | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a real wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:7.
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. 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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