White lies and kind silence, sentence 0
Sometimes the plain truth would hurt someone and a big lie would not be honest.
Who acts: plain truth, big lie · What happens: hurt, not be · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday 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 (plain truth, big lie), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 truth | amod |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 hurt | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 honest | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lie | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lie | amod |
| 11 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 honest | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 honest | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 honest | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 honest | cop |
| 15 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hurt | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | would | the plain truth | someone | sometimes property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is | would | a big lie | honest property | 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, 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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×1. 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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