Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 4

For a child today this means listening to both sides, speaking kindly about other people's faith, and helping to mend a broken friendship rather than only punishing.

Who acts: this · What happens: mean, listen, speak, help, mend, break · To what, where: broken friendship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» 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), 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	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 means	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sides	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sides	det
10	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 listening	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speaking	punct
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 listening	conj
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	12 speaking	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	18 faith	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faith	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 people	case
18	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speaking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 helping	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 helping	cc
21	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 listening	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 mend	mark
23	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 helping	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 friendship	det
25	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 friendship	amod
26	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mend	obj
27	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	30 punishing	cc
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 rather	fixed
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 punishing	advmod
30	punishing	punish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 mend	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	this		for a child today	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen	gerund			to both sides	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme
3	speak speech: other	gerund			about other people's faith; kindly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about faith=Topic
4	help	gerund				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	mend	to-infinitive		a broken friendship		tree rules
6	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	punish	gerund				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:4.

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 ×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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