Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 5
For a child today this means: loyalty is good, but not loyalty to wrongdoing; secrets that put someone in danger must be told to a trusted adult; and a real friend never asks you to lie for them.
Who acts: this, loyalty, secrets, real friend · What happens: mean, be, put, tell, trust, not ask · To what, where: someone, danger, secrets, trusted adult, you · 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 (this, loyalty, secrets, real friend), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 8 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 good | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loyalty | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 loyalty | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 loyalty | advmod |
| 14 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 good | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wrongdoing | case |
| 16 | wrongdoing | wrongdoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loyalty | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 secrets | punct |
| 18 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 told | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 secrets | acl:relcl |
| 21 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 danger | case |
| 23 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 told | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | aux:pass |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 good | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 adult | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 adult | det |
| 29 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 adult | amod |
| 30 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 told | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 asks | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 asks | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 friend | det |
| 34 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 friend | amod |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 asks | nsubj |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 asks | advmod |
| 37 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 asks | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 lie | mark |
| 40 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 asks | xcomp |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 lie | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | for a child today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | present | loyalty | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | past | secrets | someone | danger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent someone=Theme in danger=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | must · passive | secrets | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not ask speech: ask | present | a real friend | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | lie not said to happen | to-infinitive | a real friend not said here | for secrets = secret | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:5.
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 ×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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