Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 19

When Leah's dad was a boy he nicked (stole) sweets from Mr Patel's shop; Mr Patel let him work Saturdays to pay it back, and a year later trusted him with the till.

Who acts: dad, other, Mr · What happens: be, nick, let, work, pay back, trust · To what, where: boy, stole sweets, shop, other

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 (dad, other, Mr), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 boy	mark
2	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Leah	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nicked	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nicked	nsubj
9	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 stole	punct
11	stole	stole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sweets	compound
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 stole	punct
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nicked	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	18 shop	case
15	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 shop	nmod:poss
16	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Mr	flat
17	's	's	PART	_	15 Mr	case
18	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sweets	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
20	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 let	nsubj
21	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Mr	flat
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nicked	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 work	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pay	mark
27	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 work	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pay	obj
29	back	back	ADV	_	27 pay	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 trusted	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 trusted	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 year	det
33	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 later	obl:unmarked
34	later	later	ADV	_	35 trusted	advmod
35	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nicked	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 trusted	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 till	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 till	det
39	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trusted	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 nicked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Leah's dad	a boy					tree rules
2	nick	past	other	stole sweets		Mr's shop			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme from shop=Source
3	let	past	Mr	other					tree rules
4	work	infinitive	other not said here				saturday		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pay back	to-infinitive	other not said here	shop					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
6	trust	past	other not said here		other			with the till; later property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with till=Theme

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: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): R5-strong ×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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