White lies and kind silence, sentence 5

Keeping quiet about a haircut or a lunch you would not choose is not lying; it is good manners.

Who acts: you, Keeping, opinion · What happens: keep, not choose, not lie, be · To what, where: lunch, good manners

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 (you, Keeping, 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	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lying	csubj
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeping	xcomp
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 haircut	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 haircut	det
5	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quiet	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 lunch	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lunch	det
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 haircut	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 choose	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 choose	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 choose	advmod
12	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lunch	acl:relcl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lying	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 lying	advmod
15	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 manners	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 manners	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 manners	cop
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 manners	amod
20	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 lying	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund			quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not choose	would	you	a lunch not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme
3	not lie	present · progressive	Keeping			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	opinion	good manners		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:5.

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 ×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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