Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 5

A famous story says young Abraham Lincoln walked miles to return a few cents to a customer, which helped earn him the name "Honest Abe".

Who acts: famous story, young Abraham Lincoln, customer · What happens: say, walk, return, help, earn · To what, where: miles, few cents, customer, name, Lincoln · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» 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 (famous story, young Abraham Lincoln, customer), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Lincoln	amod
6	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Lincoln	compound
7	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 walked	nsubj
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walked	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 return	mark
11	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 walked	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cents	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cents	amod
14	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 return	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 customer	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 customer	det
17	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 helped	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 helped	nsubj
20	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 customer	acl:relcl
21	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helped	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 earn	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 name	det
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 earn	obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Abe	punct
26	Honest	Honest	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Abe	compound
27	Abe	Abe	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 name	appos
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Abe	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a famous story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	past	young Abraham Lincoln	miles			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory
3	return	to-infinitive	young Abraham Lincoln not said here	a few cents		a customer	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cent=Theme to customer=Destination
4	help	past	a customer				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	earn	infinitive	a customer not said here	the name	Lincoln		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary name=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:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:5.

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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