Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 2
Responsibility means doing your duties and owning the results of your actions instead of making excuses; Christians believe God gives each person gifts and tasks to look after well.
Who acts: Responsibility, Christians, God, your · What happens: mean, do, own, make, believe, give · To what, where: duties, results, excuses, person gifts, actions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Responsibility, Christians, God, your), 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 | Responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 duties | nmod:poss |
| 5 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 doing | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 duties | cc |
| 7 | owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 doing | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 results | det |
| 9 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 owning | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 actions | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 actions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 results | nmod |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 making | mark |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 owning | advcl |
| 16 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 making | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
| 18 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 believe | nsubj |
| 19 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gives | nsubj |
| 21 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 believe | ccomp |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 person | det |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gifts | compound |
| 24 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gives | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tasks | cc |
| 26 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gifts | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 look | mark |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gifts | acl |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 look | compound:prt |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 look | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Responsibility | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | gerund | Responsibility not said here | your duties | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | own | gerund | Responsibility not said here | the results of your actions | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot result=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | Responsibility not said here | excuses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product | ||||
| 5 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | give | present | God | person gifts and tasks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 7 | look after | to-infinitive | God not said here | person gifts and tasks not said here | well property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | result | your actions | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | act | your | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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