Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 40

Kind lies, like «the dog went to a farm», may protect for a while, but most people later prefer the truth told gently.

Who acts: dog, Kind lies, most people · What happens: go, protect, prefer, tell · To what, where: Kind lies, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (dog, Kind lies, most people), 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 lies	amod
2	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 protect	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lies	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 farm	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 farm	det
11	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 protect	aux
15	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 while	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 while	det
18	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 protect	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 prefer	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 prefer	cc
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 prefer	nsubj
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 prefer	advmod
24	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 protect	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 truth	det
26	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prefer	obj
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 truth	acl
28	gently	gently	ADV	_	27 told	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 protect	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	the dog	Kind lies not said here		to a farm	tree rules
2	protect	may	Kind lies		while		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	prefer	present	most people	the truth		late property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	participle		the truth not said here		gently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:40.

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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