Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 3
Christians believe God is truthful and cannot lie (Titus 1:2), and the commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" (Exodus 20:16) guards the trust between neighbours.
Who acts: Christians, God, You, commandment · What happens: believe, be, not lie, not bear, guard · To what, where: false witness, trust · 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 (Christians, God, You, commandment), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 truthful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 truthful | cop |
| 5 | truthful | truthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lie | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lie | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 lie | advmod |
| 9 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 truthful | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Titus | punct |
| 11 | Titus | Titus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 truthful | parataxis |
| 12 | 1:2 | 1:2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Titus | flat |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Titus | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 guards | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 commandment | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 commandment | det |
| 17 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 guards | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bear | punct |
| 19 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 bear | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bear | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 bear | advmod |
| 22 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 commandment | parataxis |
| 23 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 witness | amod |
| 24 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bear | obj |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 neighbour | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bear | obl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bear | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Exodus | punct |
| 30 | Exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 commandment | dep |
| 31 | 20:16 | 20:16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 Exodus | flat |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Exodus | punct |
| 33 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 trust | det |
| 35 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 guards | obj |
| 36 | between | between | ADP | _ | 37 neighbours | case |
| 37 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 trust | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | God | truthful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not lie | can | God not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not bear in a quote | shall | You | false witness | against your neighbour | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient | |||
| 5 | guard | present | the commandment | the trust | between neighbours | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Beneficiary |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-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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