--- title: Plato's story of the ring of Gyges, a ring that made its wearer invi… — Cheating at school: copying and peeking · tree and pragmatics description: Plato's story of the ring of Gyges, a ring that made its wearer invisible, asks whether you would still be honest if nobody could see you. Who acts: ring, story, you, 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 (ring, story, 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:092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.lesson:16 # text = Plato's story of the ring of Gyges, a ring that made its wearer invisible, asks whether you would still be honest if nobody could see you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.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 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Gyges Gyges PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 wearer wearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 28 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | a ring | | | | | invisible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Plato's story of the ring of Gyges | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | would | you | | | | still | honest *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | nobody | you | | | | | 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:092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.lesson:16`. **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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