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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 (Scientists, most children, patient grown ups, Adam), 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:12 # text = Scientists find most children start trying lies around age 3 or 4, and learn honesty as patient grown-ups help them; Adam blaming Eve and Eve blaming the serpent (Genesis 3:12-13) is the Bible's first hide-and-blame story. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ _ 7 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 flat _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 csubj _ _ 27 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 3:12-13 3:12-13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 flat _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod:poss 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 47 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:amod 42 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ _ 46 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 48 . . 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 | **find** | present | Scientists | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **start** | present | most children | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **try** | gerund | most children *not said here* | lies | | | around age | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality | | 4 | **learn** | present | most children *not said here* | honesty | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honesty=Topic | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **help** | present | patient grown ups | children *= child* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 7 | **blame** | gerund | Adam | Eve and Eve | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **blame** | gerund | Adam *not said here* | the serpent | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | | 9 | **is a** | present | blaming | hide and the Bible's first blame story | | | | | tree rules | 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:12`. **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 ×4, R8-pos-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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