Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 8
Plato argued that being truly fair is better for your soul than only seeming fair.
Who acts: Plato · What happens: argue, be, seem · 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 (Plato), 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 | 2 argued | nsubj |
| 2 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 better | mark |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fair | cop |
| 5 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 fair | advmod |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 better | csubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 better | cop |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 argued | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 soul | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soul | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 better | obl |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeming | mark |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 seeming | advmod |
| 14 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 better | advcl |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seeming | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 argued | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | past | Plato | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | fair, truly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | for your soul; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | gerund | fair property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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: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.
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