White lies and kind silence, sentence 10
Finding something true and kind to say is better than both a hurtful truth and a big lie.
Who acts: Finding · What happens: find, say, be · To what, where: something · 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 (Finding), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 better | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Finding | obj |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kind | cc |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 something | acl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | cop |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 truth | case |
| 11 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 14 truth | cc:preconj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 13 | hurtful | hurtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 truth | amod |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 better | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lie | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lie | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lie | amod |
| 18 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 truth | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Finding | than a hurtful truth and a big lie; good 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:10.
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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