Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 15
Christians believe God is truthful and wants people to be honest too; one of the Ten Commandments forbids lying about others.
Who acts: Christians, God, people, one · What happens: believe, be, want, forbid, lie · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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 (Christians, God, people, one), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 truthful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 truthful | cop |
| 5 | truthful | truthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wants | cc |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 truthful | conj |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wants | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 honest | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 honest | cop |
| 11 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wants | xcomp |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 honest | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 forbids | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 forbids | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Commandments | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Commandments | det |
| 17 | Ten | Ten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Commandments | compound |
| 18 | Commandments | commandment | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | forbids | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 forbids | obj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 others | case |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | God | truthful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | God not said here | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forbid | present | one of the Ten Commandments | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | about others | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about other=Location |
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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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