Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 15
Lying about how you got something, like a game skin, is empty pride; "Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow" (Proverbs 13:11).
Who acts: you, Lying, Dishonest money, whoever, money · What happens: lie, get, be, dwindle away, gather, make · To what, where: something, empty pride, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» 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 (you, Lying, Dishonest money, whoever), 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 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pride | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 got | mark |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lying | ccomp |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 skin | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lying | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pride | cop |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pride | amod |
| 15 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwindles | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwindles | punct |
| 18 | Dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 money | amod |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dwindles | nsubj |
| 20 | dwindles | dwindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pride | parataxis |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 dwindles | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 makes | cc |
| 24 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 makes | nsubj |
| 25 | gathers | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 whoever | acl:relcl |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gathers | obj |
| 27 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 little | advmod |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 little | case |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 makes | advmod |
| 30 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dwindles | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 makes | obj |
| 32 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 makes | xcomp |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Proverbs | punct |
| 35 | Proverbs | proverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 makes | obl |
| 36 | 13:11 | 13:11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 Proverbs | nmod |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Proverbs | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 pride | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | past | you | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Lying | empty pride | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dwindle away in a quote | present | Dishonest money | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | gather in a quote | present | money | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | present | whoever | money | Proverbs 13:11 obl | tree rules | |||
| 7 | grow in a quote | infinitive | money not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.lesson:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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