White lies and kind silence, sentence 12
Honest, gentle encouragement helps people improve and keeps your word trustworthy.
Who acts: Honest gentle encouragement, people, your · What happens: help, improve, keep, word · To what, where: people, word
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 (Honest gentle encouragement, people, your), 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 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 encouragement | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Honest | punct |
| 3 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 encouragement | amod |
| 4 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helps | nsubj |
| 5 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 helps | obj |
| 7 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helps | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 keeps | cc |
| 9 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 helps | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 word | nmod:poss |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeps | obj |
| 12 | trustworthy | trustworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keeps | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Honest gentle encouragement | people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | improve | infinitive | people not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | Honest gentle encouragement not said here | your word | trustworthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 4 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:12.
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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