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title: Benjamin Franklin kept a chart of thirteen virtues and marked his fa… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Benjamin Franklin kept a chart of thirteen virtues and marked his faults every day. Who acts: Benjamin. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 9

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Benjamin Franklin kept a chart of thirteen virtues and marked his faults every day.

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**Who acts:** Benjamin · **What happens:** keep, mark, chart, fault · **To what, where:** chart, faults, thirteen virtues

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:9
# text = Benjamin Franklin kept a chart of thirteen virtues and marked his faults every day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Franklin	Franklin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Benjamin | a chart of thirteen virtues |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | past | Benjamin *not said here* | Benjamin's faults |  |  | day |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fault=Destination |
| 3 | **chart** |  |  | thirteen virtues |  |  |  |  | nom chart «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **fault** |  | Benjamin |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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