Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 3
Jesus said, "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" (Luke 16:10): small honesty is training for big honesty, and small lies are training too.
Who acts: Jesus, small honesty, small lies · What happens: say, trust, train · To what, where: Whoever · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jesus, small honesty, small lies), 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 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 5 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 trusted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 trusted | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trusted | aux:pass |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 little | case |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 little | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trusted | obl |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 trusted | aux |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 trusted | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trusted | aux:pass |
| 15 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | ccomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 much | case |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trusted | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 much | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Luke | punct |
| 20 | Luke | luke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 much | appos |
| 21 | 16:10 | 16:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Luke | flat |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Luke | punct |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 honesty | amod |
| 25 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 training | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 training | aux |
| 27 | training | train | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 honesty | case |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 honesty | amod |
| 30 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 training | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 training | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 training | cc |
| 33 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lies | amod |
| 34 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 training | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 training | aux |
| 36 | training | train | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 training | conj |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 training | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | trust in a quote | can · passive | Whoever | with little | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with little=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trust in a quote | can · passive | with much | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with much=Theme | |||||
| 4 | train | present · progressive | small honesty | for big honesty | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | train | present · progressive | small lies | vn hire-13.5.3 «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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:3.
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 ×2. 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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