Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 8
A mistake told is a problem shared; a mistake hidden becomes a lie on top of a mistake (Proverbs 12:22: the Lord "delights in people who are trustworthy").
Who acts: mistake, Lord, people · What happens: tell, be, share, hide, become, delight · To what, where: mistake, problem, lie · 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 (mistake, Lord, people), 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 mistake | det |
| 2 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shared | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mistake | acl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 problem | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 problem | det |
| 6 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 problem | acl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 becomes | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mistake | det |
| 10 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 becomes | nsubj |
| 11 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mistake | acl |
| 12 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 problem | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lie | det |
| 14 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 becomes | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lie | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mistake | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mistake | det |
| 19 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Proverbs | punct |
| 21 | Proverbs | proverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mistake | conj |
| 22 | 12:22 | 12:22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Proverbs | flat |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 delights | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lord | det |
| 25 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 delights | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 delights | punct |
| 27 | delights | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Proverbs | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 delights | obl |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 trustworthy | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 trustworthy | cop |
| 32 | trustworthy | trustworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 people | acl:relcl |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 trustworthy | punct |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 delights | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 problem | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | a mistake not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a problem | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | share | participle | a mistake | a problem not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | a mistake not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | become | present | a mistake | a lie on top of a mistake and Proverbs | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | delight in a quote | present | the Lord | in people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | people | trustworthy property | 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:8.
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 ×3, 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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