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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 (Plato, Gyges, you, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:10 # text = Plato told of the ring of Gyges, which made its wearer invisible, and asked whether you would still be honest if nobody could ever see you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.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): no change 1 Plato Plato PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Gyges Gyges PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wearer wearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Plato | | | | | of the ring of Gyges | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | past | Gyges | ring's wearer | | | | invisible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wearer=Product | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Plato *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | would | you | | | | still | honest *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | nobody | you | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:10`. **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): no change. **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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