Forgiving, sentence 49
Telling the truth quickly usually means smaller trouble and easier forgiveness.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, mean · To what, where: truth, smaller trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (Telling), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 trouble | amod |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 forgiveness | cc |
| 10 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 forgiveness | amod |
| 11 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trouble | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | 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 | gerund | the truth | quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Telling | smaller trouble and easier forgiveness | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic |
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:454-forgiving.lesson:49.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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