Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 3
Christians believe everything is a gift from God and we are caretakers of it, so we treat other people's things as carefully as we would want ours treated, which is the Golden Rule.
Who acts: Christians, everything, we, ours · What happens: believe, be, treat, want · To what, where: gift, caretakers, things, ours, Golden Rule · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» 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, everything, we, ours), 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 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 gift | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gift | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gift | det |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 God | case |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caretakers | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 caretakers | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 caretakers | cop |
| 12 | caretakers | caretaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gift | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caretakers | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 treat | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 treat | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 treat | nsubj |
| 18 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gift | conj |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 things | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 people | case |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 treat | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 carefully | advmod |
| 24 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 18 treat | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 want | mark |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 want | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 want | aux |
| 28 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 treat | advcl |
| 29 | ours | ours | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 want | obj |
| 30 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 want | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Rule | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 Rule | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 Rule | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Rule | det |
| 35 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Rule | amod |
| 36 | Rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 treat | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | 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 a | present | everything | a gift and caretakers | from God | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | we | caretakers | of thing | tree rules | |||
| 4 | treat | present | we | other people's things | carefully property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | |||
| 5 | want | would | we | ours | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | treat not said to happen | participle | ours not said here | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | the Golden Rule | 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:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.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): 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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