Keeping promises, sentence 6
A promise is a real duty: only a stronger duty, like helping someone who is hurt, can outweigh it, not a better offer.
Who acts: promise, stronger duty · What happens: be, help, hurt, outweigh · To what, where: real duty, someone, promise
This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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 (promise, stronger duty), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 duty | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 duty | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 duty | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duty | amod |
| 6 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 outweigh | parataxis |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 outweigh | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 duty | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 duty | det |
| 10 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 duty | amod |
| 11 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 outweigh | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 helping | punct |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 helping | mark |
| 14 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 duty | acl |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 helping | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hurt | aux:pass |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 someone | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 duty | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 outweigh | aux |
| 21 | outweigh | outweigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 outweigh | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 offer | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 offer | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 offer | det |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 offer | amod |
| 27 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 outweigh | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 duty | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a promise | a real duty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | gerund | a stronger duty not said here | someone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | hurt | present · passive | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | outweigh | can | a stronger duty | promise | a better offer obl | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:6.
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): R6-punct-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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