Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 15

Honest shops last because buyers come back; Proverbs 11:1 says, "The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favour with him."

Who acts: Honest shops, buyers, Proverbs, Lord, accurate weights · What happens: last, come back, say, detest, find · To what, where: dishonest scales, favour · 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 (Honest shops, buyers, Proverbs, Lord), 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shops	amod
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 last	nsubj
3	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
5	buyers	buyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 last	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 Proverbs	punct
9	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 says	nsubj
10	11:1	11:1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 Proverbs	flat
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 detests	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 detests	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lord	det
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 detests	nsubj
16	detests	detest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
17	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scales	amod
18	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 detests	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
21	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 weights	amod
22	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 find	nsubj
23	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 detests	conj
24	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 detests	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 detests	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	last	present	Honest shops			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	come back	present	buyers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	Proverbs			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	detest in a quote	present	the Lord	dishonest scales		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scale=Stimulus
5	find in a quote	present	accurate weights	favour	with Lord	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic

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:15.

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): 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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