Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 9
If a parent asks you to lie, the vicar says: "Honour your parents (Exodus 20:12), yet our first obedience is to God, who asks truthfulness of us (Acts 5:29)."
Who acts: parent, vicar, first obedience, God, our · What happens: ask, lie, say, honour, be, obey · To what, where: you, parents, truthfulness · 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 (parent, vicar, first obedience, God), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 asks | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 asks | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lie | mark |
| 7 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asks | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vicar | det |
| 10 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Honour | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Honour | punct |
| 14 | Honour | honour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | ccomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Honour | obj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Exodus | punct |
| 18 | Exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 parents | appos |
| 19 | 20:12 | 20:12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Exodus | flat |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Exodus | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 God | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 28 God | cc |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 obedience | nmod:poss |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 obedience | amod |
| 25 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 God | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 God | cop |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 God | case |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asks | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 asks | nsubj |
| 31 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 God | acl:relcl |
| 32 | truthfulness | truthfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asks | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 us | case |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 truthfulness | nmod |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Acts | punct |
| 36 | Acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 God | appos |
| 37 | 5:29 | 5:29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Acts | flat |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Acts | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 God | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 God | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | a parent | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lie not said to happen | to-infinitive | a parent not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the vicar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | honour in a quote | infinitive | your parents | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | our first obedience | to God | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | God | truthfulness of us | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truthfulness=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | obey in a quote | our | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=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: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): 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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