White lies and kind silence, sentence 14
A comforting truth, like «It was not your fault», is the best kind of kindness.
Who acts: truth, comforting truth · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: fault, best kind · 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 (truth, comforting truth), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 2 | comforting | comforting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 truth | amod |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 truth | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 fault | mark |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 fault | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fault | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fault | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 fault | advmod |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fault | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 truth | parataxis |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 fault | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 truth | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 kind | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kind | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 kind | amod |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kindness | case |
| 19 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kind | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 kind | 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 in a quote | past | truth | your fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a comforting truth | the best kind | of kindness | 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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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