Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 4
Good rules protect people, though some rules can be unfair and need changing by fair means; self-control and perseverance, managing your wants and keeping going when it is hard, help you do the right thing day after day.
Who acts: Good rules, rules, perseverance, you, your · What happens: protect, be, need, change, manage, keep · To what, where: people, wants, you, right thing
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, rules, perseverance, you), 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 | _ | 11 unfair | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 unfair | mark |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 rules | det |
| 8 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 unfair | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 unfair | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unfair | cop |
| 11 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 protect | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 need | cc |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 unfair | conj |
| 14 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 need | xcomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 means | case |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | amod |
| 17 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 changing | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 control | punct |
| 19 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 control | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 self | punct |
| 21 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 perseverance | cc |
| 23 | perseverance | perseverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 control | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 help | punct |
| 25 | managing | manage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 help | advcl |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wants | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wants | want | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 managing | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 keeping | cc |
| 29 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 managing | conj |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 keeping | xcomp |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 hard | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hard | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 hard | cop |
| 34 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 going | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 managing | punct |
| 36 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 protect | conj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 help | obj |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 help | xcomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 thing | det |
| 40 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thing | amod |
| 41 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 do | obj |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 do | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 day | case |
| 44 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 day | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | 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 | is | can | some rules | unfair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | some rules not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | change not said to happen | gerund | some rules not said here | by fair means | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | manage | gerund | your wants | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Theme | |||||
| 6 | keep | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | go | gerund | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | is | present | perseverance | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | help | infinitive | Good rules not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 10 | do | infinitive | you not said here | the right thing | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 11 | want | your | nom want «state transitive»: 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:4.
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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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