Lies that do real harm, sentence 7
If you have told a harmful lie, the bravest and best thing is to tell the truth quickly, before the harm grows.
Who acts: you, harm · What happens: tell, be, grow · To what, where: harmful lie, bravest thing, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» 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, harm), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 told | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thing | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lie | det |
| 6 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lie | amod |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 10 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 thing | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 best | cc |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 bravest | conj |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thing | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 truth | det |
| 18 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 tell | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grows | punct |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 grows | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 harm | det |
| 23 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grows | nsubj |
| 24 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | you | a harmful lie | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the bravest thing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth | quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | the harm | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:197-harmful-lies.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): 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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