--- title: For a child today: doing right can mean being different from everyon… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today: doing right can mean being different from everyone around you, a promise is a serious thing, and showing off to be the greatest tends to split people apart. Who acts: doing, promise, serious thing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doing, promise, serious thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:5 # text = For a child today: doing right can mean being different from everyone around you, a promise is a serious thing, and showing off to be the greatest tends to split people apart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 7 right right ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 14 around around ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl 26 off off ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 ccomp _ _ 31 tends tend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 split split VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 apart apart ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | right *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | can | doing | | | | | for a child today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | doing *not said here* | | | everyone | | different *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a promise | a serious thing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **show off** | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **tend** | present | a serious thing | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **split** | to-infinitive | a serious thing *not said here* | people | | | | apart *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/4/) - next →: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/)