Owning up when it is hard, sentence 16
Aristotle said courage is doing the right thing in spite of fear.
Who acts: Aristotle, courage · What happens: say, do, spite · To what, where: right thing, spite, fear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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 (Aristotle, courage), 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 | Aristotle | Aristotle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spite | case |
| 10 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spite | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | Aristotle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | courage | the right thing | spite of fear | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | spite | fear | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.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): no change. 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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