Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 2
Owning up is scary for a minute and freeing afterwards; psychologists find children who own up are usually punished less and trusted more.
Who acts: Owning, psychologists, children · What happens: own up, be, free, find, punish, trust · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (Owning, psychologists, children), 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 | Owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 scary | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Owning | compound:prt |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scary | cop |
| 4 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 minute | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 minute | det |
| 7 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scary | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 freeing | cc |
| 9 | freeing | free | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 scary | conj |
| 10 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 9 freeing | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 12 | psychologists | psychologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | nsubj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scary | parataxis |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 own | nsubj |
| 16 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 children | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 own | compound:prt |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 punished | aux:pass |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 punished | advmod |
| 20 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 find | ccomp |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 punished | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trusted | cc |
| 23 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 punished | conj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 trusted | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scary | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | gerund | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Owning | minute | scary property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | free | gerund | Owning not said here | afterwards property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 4 | find | present | psychologists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | own up | present | children | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | punish | present · passive | children | less, usually property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:2.
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): 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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