Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 1
Think of Ollie, who tells the whole class, "My dad plays for Arsenal, swear down." By Friday everyone knows it isn't true, and now nobody believes him even about his new puppy.
Who acts: you, Ollie, dad, everyone, class, nobody · What happens: think, tell, play, swear down, know, not be · To what, where: whole class, dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» 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 (you, Ollie, dad, everyone), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Ollie | case |
| 3 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tells | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 tells | nsubj |
| 6 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Ollie | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 class | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 class | amod |
| 9 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tells | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tells | punct |
| 12 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dad | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plays | nsubj |
| 14 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tells | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Arsenal | case |
| 16 | Arsenal | arsenal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 plays | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swear | punct |
| 18 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 plays | parataxis |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 swear | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
| 22 | By | by | ADP | _ | 23 Friday | case |
| 23 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 knows | obl |
| 24 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 knows | nsubj |
| 25 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 true | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 true | cop |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 true | advmod |
| 29 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 knows | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 believes | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 believes | cc |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | _ | 34 believes | advmod |
| 33 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 believes | nsubj |
| 34 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 true | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 believes | obj |
| 36 | even | even | ADV | _ | 40 puppy | advmod |
| 37 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 puppy | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 puppy | nmod:poss |
| 39 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 puppy | amod |
| 40 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 believes | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of Ollie | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Ollie | the whole class | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | present | My dad | for Arsenal | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for arsenal=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | swear down in a quote | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | know | present | everyone | friday | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not is | present | class | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | believe | present | nobody | dad | now | about dad's new puppy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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