Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 20

Covering for a friend means lying that they were with you; it can hurt the people who are fooled, the friend, and you.

Who acts: Covering, Christians, promise · What happens: cover, mean, lie, be, hurt, fool · 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 (Covering, Christians, promise), 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	Covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	csubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 friend	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Covering	obl
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 you	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 you	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 you	cop
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lying	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hurt	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurt	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hurt	aux
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hurt	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 fooled	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fooled	aux:pass
20	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 people	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 friend	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 friend	det
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 people	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 you	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 you	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 people	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund			for a friend	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	mean	present	Covering			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie not said to happen	gerund	Covering not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Christians = christian		with you	tree rules
5	hurt	can	promise	the people and the friend		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient
6	fool	present · passive		the people and the friend		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:20.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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