Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 19
A lie can hurt more than the thing it hid: a cup can be replaced, but broken trust must be rebuilt, and that takes time.
Who acts: lie, that · What happens: hurt, hide, replace, break, rebuild, take · To what, where: more, thing, cup, broken trust
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 (lie, that), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hid | nsubj |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 replaced | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cup | det |
| 13 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 replaced | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replaced | aux:pass |
| 16 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rebuilt | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 rebuilt | cc |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 trust | amod |
| 20 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rebuilt | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 rebuilt | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 23 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 replaced | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 takes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 takes | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 takes | nsubj |
| 27 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 takes | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can | a lie | more | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | lie | the thing not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | replace | can · passive | a cup | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | rebuild | must · passive | broken trust | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 6 | take | present | that | time | vn bring-11.3 «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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:19.
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, 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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