White lies and kind silence, sentence 11
Kind silence is not a lie; not every opinion needs to be said.
Who acts: Kind silence, opinion · What happens: not be, need, say · To what, where: lie · 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 (Kind silence, opinion), 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 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 silence | amod |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lie | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lie | det |
| 6 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 needs | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 opinion | advmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 opinion | det |
| 10 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | nsubj |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | aux:pass |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 needs | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Kind silence | a lie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | every opinion | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | every opinion not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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