--- title: In Aesop's fable a shepherd boy cried "Wolf!" for fun so many times… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: In Aesop's fable a shepherd boy cried "Wolf!" for fun so many times that, when a real wolf came, nobody believed him; trust is built on honesty, and once it is broken it is hard to rebuild. Who acts: shepherd boy, real wolf, nobody. 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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 (shepherd boy, real wolf, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:0 # text = In Aesop's fable a shepherd boy cried "Wolf!" for fun so many times that, when a real wolf came, nobody believed him; trust is built on honesty, and once it is broken it is hard to rebuild. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Aesop Aesop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 nsubj _ _ 27 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 37 once once SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 advcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 expl _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 rebuild rebuild VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:xcomp 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a shepherd boy | Wolf | | Aesop's fable | time | for fun | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | | 2 | **come** | past | a real wolf | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **believe** | past | nobody | Wolf | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **build** | present · passive | | trust | | honesty | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on honesty=Source | | 5 | **break** | present · passive | | trust | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | a shepherd boy *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **rebuild** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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](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:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.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, 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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