Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 9
One accident is forgivable, but a pattern of excuses, like "losing" a borrowed thing three times, becomes a trust problem.
Who acts: One accident, pattern, excuses · What happens: be, borrow, become, pattern · To what, where: trust problem
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 (One accident, pattern, excuses), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 accident | nummod |
| 2 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgivable | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgivable | cop |
| 4 | forgivable | forgivable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 becomes | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 becomes | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pattern | det |
| 8 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 excuses | case |
| 10 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pattern | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 losing | punct |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 losing | mark |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 losing | punct |
| 14 | losing | losing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pattern | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 losing | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 losing | obj |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 times | nummod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 losing | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 becomes | punct |
| 22 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgivable | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 problem | det |
| 24 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 problem | compound |
| 25 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgivable | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One accident | forgivable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | borrow | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | become | present | a pattern of excuses | a trust problem | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pattern | excuses | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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