Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 16
Most faiths prize truth highly and allow at most narrow exceptions: Islam and Judaism both allow softening the truth only to make peace between people who have fallen out.
Who acts: Most faiths, Islam, people · What happens: prize, allow, soften, make, fall out · To what, where: truth, most narrow exceptions, peace
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» 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 (Most faiths, Islam, 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 faiths | amod |
| 2 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prize | nsubj |
| 3 | prize | prize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prize | obj |
| 5 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 3 prize | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 allow | cc |
| 7 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prize | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 exceptions | case |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 exceptions | amod |
| 10 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 exceptions | amod |
| 11 | exceptions | exception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 allow | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Islam | punct |
| 13 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 allow | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Judaism | cc |
| 15 | Judaism | Judaism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Islam | conj |
| 16 | both | both | ADV | _ | 17 allow | advmod |
| 17 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prize | parataxis |
| 18 | softening | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 allow | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 softening | obj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 make | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 softening | advcl |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 peace | nmod |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 fallen | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 fallen | aux |
| 29 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 people | acl:relcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 fallen | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prize | 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 | prize | present | Most faiths | truth | highly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | allow | present | Most faiths not said here | most narrow exceptions | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 3 | allow | present | Islam and Judaism | both property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | soften not said to happen | gerund | Islam and Judaism not said here | the truth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Islam and Judaism not said here | peace | between people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | |||
| 6 | fall out | present · perfect | people | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:16.
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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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