Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 8

A white lie is a small untruth told to protect someone's feelings, like "I love it!" about a present you don't like; it thanks the person for their kindness.

Who acts: white lie, small untruth, I, you, thing · What happens: be, tell, protect, love, not like, thank · To what, where: small untruth, feelings, thing, present, person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life 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 (white lie, small untruth, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lie	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lie	amod
3	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 untruth	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 untruth	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 untruth	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 untruth	amod
7	untruth	untruth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 untruth	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 protect	mark
10	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 feelings	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 someone	case
13	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 protect	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 love	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 love	nsubj
18	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 love	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 present	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 present	det
24	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 love	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 like	advmod
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 present	acl:relcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thanks	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thanks	nsubj
31	thanks	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 untruth	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 person	det
33	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thanks	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 kindness	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 kindness	nmod:poss
36	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thanks	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 untruth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a white lie	a small untruth			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		a small untruth not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	protect not said to happen	to-infinitive	a small untruth not said here	someone's feelings			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Beneficiary
4	love in a quote	present	I	thing		about a present	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	not like	present · do-support	you	a present not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot present=Theme
6	thank speech: thank	present	thing		the person	for lies's kindness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent person=Theme for kindness=Attribute

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, 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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:8.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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