Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 4
Many faiths agree: Christians and Jews read "Do not steal.
Who acts: Many faiths, Christians · What happens: agree, read, not steal · 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 (Many faiths, Christians), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 faiths | amod |
| 2 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 5 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 read | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Jews | cc |
| 7 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Christians | conj |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 agree | ccomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 steal | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 steal | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 steal | advmod |
| 12 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 read | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | Many faiths | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | read | present | Christians and Jews | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not steal in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Christians and Jews 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:4.
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): 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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