Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 15
Good rules protect people; unfair rules can be changed by fair and peaceful means.
Who acts: Good rules, fair means · What happens: protect, change · To what, where: people, unfair rules
This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» 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 (Good rules, fair means), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rules | amod |
| 2 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 protect | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
| 6 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rules | amod |
| 7 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 changed | aux:pass |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 protect | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 means | case |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 means | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 peaceful | cc |
| 14 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fair | conj |
| 15 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 changed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | Good rules | people | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | change | can · passive | fair means | unfair rules | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.lesson:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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