Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 12
Scientists find most children start trying lies around age 3 or 4, and learn honesty as patient grown-ups help them; Adam blaming Eve and Eve blaming the serpent (Genesis 3:12-13) is the Bible's first hide-and-blame story.
Who acts: Scientists, most children, patient grown ups, Adam, blaming · What happens: find, start, try, learn, grow, help · To what, where: lies, age, honesty, children, Eve, serpent · 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 (Scientists, most children, patient grown ups, Adam), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 children | amod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 start | nsubj |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | ccomp |
| 6 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 start | xcomp |
| 7 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trying | obj |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 age | case |
| 9 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trying | obl |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 age | flat |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 4 | cc |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 3 | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 learn | cc |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | conj |
| 16 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 learn | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 18 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ups | amod |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ups | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grown | punct |
| 21 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 help | nsubj |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 blaming | punct |
| 25 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 blaming | nsubj |
| 26 | blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 hide | csubj |
| 27 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 blaming | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Eve | cc |
| 29 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Eve | conj |
| 30 | blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 blaming | ccomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 serpent | det |
| 32 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blaming | obj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 Genesis | punct |
| 34 | Genesis | Genesis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 serpent | appos |
| 35 | 3:12-13 | 3:12-13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 Genesis | flat |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 Genesis | punct |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 hide | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Bible | det |
| 39 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 story | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Bible | case |
| 41 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 47 story | amod |
| 42 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | parataxis |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 story | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 story | cc |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 and | punct |
| 46 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 story | compound |
| 47 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hide | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Scientists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | start | present | most children | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | most children not said here | lies | around age | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | learn | present | most children not said here | honesty | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honesty=Topic | ||||
| 5 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | help | present | patient grown ups | children = child | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | blame | gerund | Adam | Eve and Eve | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | blame | gerund | Adam not said here | the serpent | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is a | present | blaming | hide and the Bible's first blame story | 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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:12.
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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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