Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 19

Some promises can be outweighed by a more serious duty, such as helping someone who is hurt, and then you should explain and apologise.

Who acts: serious duty, you · What happens: outweigh, help, hurt, explain, apologise · To what, where: promises, someone

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 (serious duty, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 promises	det
2	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 outweighed	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 outweighed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 outweighed	aux:pass
5	outweighed	outweigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 duty	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 duty	det
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 serious	advmod
9	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 duty	amod
10	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outweighed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 helping	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	14 helping	mark
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 duty	acl
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 helping	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hurt	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hurt	aux:pass
18	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 someone	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 explain	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 explain	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 explain	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 explain	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 explain	aux
24	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 outweighed	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 apologise	cc
26	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 explain	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 outweighed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	outweigh	can · passive	a serious duty	some promises			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	help	gerund	a serious duty not said here		someone		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary
3	hurt	present · passive					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	explain speech: assert	should	you			then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	apologise speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules

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:19.

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): no change. 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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