Owning up when it is hard, sentence 8
The commandment against false witness protects even strangers' names (Exodus 20:16).
Who acts: commandment, strangers · What happens: protect, name · To what, where: names
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 (commandment, strangers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 commandment | det |
| 2 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 protects | nsubj |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 witness | case |
| 4 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witness | amod |
| 5 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 commandment | nmod |
| 6 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 strangers | advmod |
| 8 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 names | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 strangers | case |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 protects | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Exodus | punct |
| 12 | Exodus | Exodus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 names | appos |
| 13 | 20:16 | 20:16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Exodus | flat |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Exodus | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 protects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | the commandment against false witness | strangers's names | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | name | strangers | nom name «communication 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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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