Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 12
Letting someone copy is cheating too; Paul says not to "put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister" (Romans 14:13).
Who acts: someone, Letting, Paul · What happens: let, copy, be, say, not put · To what, where: stumbling block, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» 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 (someone, Letting, Paul), 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 | Letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cheating | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 copy | nsubj |
| 3 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Letting | xcomp |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheating | cop |
| 5 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 cheating | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheating | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 put | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 block | det |
| 15 | stumbling | stumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 block | compound |
| 16 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 obstacle | cc |
| 18 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 block | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 brother | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 brother | det |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 way | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 sister | cc |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brother | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sister | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 Romans | punct |
| 29 | Romans | Romans | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 sister | conj |
| 30 | 14:13 | 14:13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 sister | nmod |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 14:13 | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheating | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | copy | infinitive | someone | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Letting | cheat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Paul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not put in a quote | to-infinitive | any stumbling block or obstacle | the way of a brother or sister 14:13 and Romans | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent block=Theme in way=Destination |
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:092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.lesson:12.
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 ×5, 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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