White lies and kind silence, sentence 7
Kind honesty matters most when someone will act on your answer: a friend about to sing at a talent show needs a gentle true tip, not a false «it's perfect».
Who acts: Kind honesty, someone, friend, your · What happens: matter, act, sing, need, be, answer · To what, where: answer, talent show, gentle true tip · 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 honesty, someone, friend, 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 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 honesty | amod |
| 2 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matters | nsubj |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 act | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 act | advmod |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 act | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 act | aux |
| 8 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 matters | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 answer | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 answer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 act | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 friend | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needs | nsubj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 sing | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sing | mark |
| 17 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 friend | acl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 show | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 show | det |
| 20 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 show | compound |
| 21 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sing | obl |
| 22 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 act | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tip | det |
| 24 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tip | amod |
| 25 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tip | amod |
| 26 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needs | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 false | punct |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 false | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 false | det |
| 30 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tip | conj |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 perfect | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 perfect | nsubj |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 perfect | cop |
| 34 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 false | parataxis |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 perfect | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | Kind honesty | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | act | future | someone | your answer | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on answer=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | a friend not said here | a talent show | about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at show=Location | |||
| 4 | need | present | a friend | a gentle true tip | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tip=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | friend | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | answer | your | nom answer «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:7.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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