Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 0
Excuses protect how we look but stop us fixing the real problem; "My dog ate my homework" sounds easier than "I forgot", but only the truth gets the homework done.
Who acts: Excuses, we, us, dog, I, truth · What happens: protect, look, stop, fix, eat, sound · To what, where: real problem, homework · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 (Excuses, we, us, dog), 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 | Excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 protect | nsubj |
| 2 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 look | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 protect | advcl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stop | cc |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 protect | conj |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fixing | nsubj |
| 9 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 problem | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 problem | amod |
| 12 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fixing | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ate | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ate | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dog | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ate | nsubj |
| 17 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sounds | csubj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 homework | nmod:poss |
| 19 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ate | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ate | punct |
| 21 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 protect | parataxis |
| 22 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 sounds | xcomp |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 forgot | mark |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 forgot | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 forgot | nsubj |
| 26 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 easier | advcl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 forgot | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gets | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 gets | cc |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 truth | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 truth | det |
| 32 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gets | nsubj |
| 33 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 protect | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 homework | det |
| 35 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gets | obj |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 gets | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | Excuses | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | present | we | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | Excuses not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fix | gerund | us | the real problem | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | past | My dog | my homework | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sound | present | easy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | forget in a quote | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | get | present | the truth | the homework | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do | participle | the homework not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:0.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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