Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 16

Plato's story of the ring of Gyges, a ring that made its wearer invisible, asks whether you would still be honest if nobody could see you.

Who acts: ring, story, you, nobody · What happens: make, ask, be, see · To what, where: you · 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 (ring, story, you, nobody), 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	Plato	Plato	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Plato	case
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asks	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ring	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Gyges	case
8	Gyges	Gyges	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ring	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ring	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ring	det
11	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ring	acl:relcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wearer	nmod:poss
15	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 invisible	nsubj
16	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
18	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 honest	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 honest	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 honest	aux
22	still	still	ADV	_	24 honest	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 honest	cop
24	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 asks	ccomp
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 honest	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	a ring			invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	ask speech: ask	present	Plato's story of the ring of Gyges				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	you		still	honest property	tree rules
4	see a condition, not said to happen	could	nobody	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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: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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