Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 9
At ancient Olympia, cheats' fines paid for bronze statues of Zeus, called Zanes, with the cheat's name on the base; "The name of the wicked will rot" (Proverbs 10:7).
Who acts: bronze statues, name, cheats, cheat · What happens: pay, call, rot, fine, name · To what, where: fines, name, base · 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 (bronze statues, name, cheats, cheat), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Olympia | case |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Olympia | amod |
| 3 | Olympia | olympia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fines | punct |
| 5 | cheats | cheat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fines | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 cheats | case |
| 7 | fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Olympia | conj |
| 8 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fines | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 statues | case |
| 10 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 statues | compound |
| 11 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paid | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Zeus | case |
| 13 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 statues | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 statues | acl |
| 16 | Zanes | Zanes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 name | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cheat | det |
| 20 | cheat | cheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 cheat | case |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 base | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 base | det |
| 25 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 name | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 name | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 name | det |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rot | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wicked | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wicked | det |
| 32 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 name | nmod |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 rot | aux |
| 34 | rot | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Olympia | parataxis |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 rot | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 Proverbs | punct |
| 37 | Proverbs | Proverbs | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 rot | parataxis |
| 38 | 10:7 | 10:7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 Proverbs | nmod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 Proverbs | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 name | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | participle | cheats's fines not said here | for bronze statues of Zeus | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for statue=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | participle | bronze statues of Zeus not said here | the cheat's name on the base | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rot in a quote | future | the name of the wicked | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fine | cheats | nom fine «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | the cheat | the base | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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:9.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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