White lies and kind silence, sentence 1

There is a third way: find something TRUE and kind to say, or kindly say nothing at all.

Who acts: third way · What happens: be, find, say · To what, where: something, nothing, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (third way), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 find	obj
9	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kind	cc
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 TRUE	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 something	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 find	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 say	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 nothing	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a third way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	infinitive	a third way not said here	something			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a third way not said here	something not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	a third way not said here	nothing	all	kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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:1.

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 ×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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