Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 3
Character thinking (virtue ethics) says we become what we repeatedly do: practise honesty and courage and you grow honest and brave; practise greed and cruelty and you grow greedy and cruel.
Who acts: Character thinking, we, you · What happens: say, become, do, practise, grow · To what, where: honesty, greed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» 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 (Character thinking, we, 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 | Character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinking | compound |
| 2 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 ethics | punct |
| 4 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ethics | compound |
| 5 | ethics | ethic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thinking | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 ethics | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 become | nsubj |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | repeatedly | repeatedly | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | ccomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 practise | punct |
| 15 | practise | practise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | parataxis |
| 16 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 practise | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 courage | cc |
| 18 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 honesty | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grow | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 grow | nsubj |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 practise | conj |
| 22 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grow | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 brave | cc |
| 24 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 honest | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 practise | punct |
| 26 | practise | practise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 practise | conj |
| 27 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 practise | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cruelty | cc |
| 29 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 greed | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 grow | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 grow | nsubj |
| 32 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 33 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 grow | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cruel | cc |
| 35 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 greedy | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Character thinking | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present | we | repeatedly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | practise | infinitive | honesty and courage | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | grow | present | you | honest property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | practise | infinitive | greed and cruelty | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | grow | present | you | greedy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:037-rules-consequences-character.lesson:3.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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