Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 0
Trust is like a glass bridge between two people: one lie can crack it in a second, but mending it takes many careful days.
Who acts: Trust, one lie, mending · What happens: be, crack, mend, take · To what, where: Trust
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (Trust, one lie, mending), 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 | Trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bridge | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bridge | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 bridge | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bridge | compound |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bridge | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 crack | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lie | nummod |
| 12 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crack | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 crack | aux |
| 14 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bridge | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crack | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 second | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crack | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 takes | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 takes | cc |
| 21 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 takes | csubj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mending | obj |
| 23 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 crack | conj |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 25 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 takes | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bridge | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Trust | like a glass bridge; between two people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crack | can | one lie | Trust | second | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 3 | mend | gerund | Trust | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | present | mending | day | 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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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