Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 4
People of other faiths and of none agree: friends, families, shops and teams only work when words can be relied on, even when nobody is checking.
Who acts: People, nobody · What happens: agree, work, rely on, check · To what, where: friends, words
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 (People, nobody), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 faiths | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faiths | amod |
| 4 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 People | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 none | cc |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 none | case |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 faiths | conj |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 agree | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 families | punct |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 friends | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shops | punct |
| 14 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 friends | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 teams | cc |
| 16 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 friends | conj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 work | advmod |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shops | parataxis |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | _ | 23 relied | advmod |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 relied | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 relied | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 relied | aux:pass |
| 23 | relied | rely | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 work | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 relied | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 checking | punct |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 checking | advmod |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | _ | 30 checking | advmod |
| 28 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 checking | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 checking | aux |
| 30 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 relied | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | People of other faiths | friends and families and shops and teams | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | ||||
| 2 | work | present | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rely on | can · passive | words | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | check | present · progressive | nobody | vn assessment-34.1 «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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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