Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 6

"Less than candid" is an official way to say dishonest; "candid" means open and honest.

Who acts: Less, candid · What happens: be, say, mean · To what, where: official way, dishonest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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 (Less, candid), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Less	punct
2	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 way	nsubj
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 candid	case
4	candid	candid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Less	obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Less	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
12	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 say	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 candid	punct
15	candid	candid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 candid	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	parataxis
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 honest	cc
20	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 open	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Less	a official way		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		dishonest		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dishonest=Topic
3	mean	present	candid		open property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:6.

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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