Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 1

Honesty means telling the truth and not deceiving; a white lie, like saying you love a present you dislike, is told to be kind, and people disagree about such lies, but there is often a kind way to be honest: "Thank you, it was so thoughtful of you."

Who acts: Honesty, white lie, you, people, kind way · What happens: mean, tell, not deceive, say, love, dislike · To what, where: truth, present, white lie, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» of the religion ethics 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 (Honesty, white lie, you, 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	Honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 deceiving	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 deceiving	advmod
8	deceiving	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 telling	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lie	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	amod
12	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
14	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 saying	mark
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lie	acl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 love	nsubj
17	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 present	det
19	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 love	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 dislike	nsubj
21	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 present	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux:pass
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	27 kind	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 kind	cop
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 told	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 disagree	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 disagree	cc
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 disagree	nsubj
31	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	conj
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 lies	case
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lies	amod
34	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 disagree	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 is	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 is	cc
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 is	expl
38	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 disagree	conj
39	often	often	ADV	_	38 is	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 way	det
41	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 way	amod
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 is	nsubj
43	to	to	PART	_	45 honest	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 honest	cop
45	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 way	acl:relcl
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 Thank	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 Thank	punct
48	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 honest	parataxis
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 Thank	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 thoughtful	punct
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 thoughtful	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 thoughtful	cop
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 thoughtful	advmod
54	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Thank	parataxis
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 you	case
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 thoughtful	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 thoughtful	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 thoughtful	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: thank
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=thank

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Honesty					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Honesty not said here	the truth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	not deceive	gerund	Honesty not said here					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a white lie not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	love	present	you	a present				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus
6	dislike	present	you	a present not said here				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	present · passive		a white lie				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
8	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	a white lie not said here				kind property	tree rules
9	disagree	present	people				about such lies	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about lie=Topic
10	be	present	a kind way			there	often property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is	to-infinitive	a kind way not said here				honest property	tree rules
12	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
13	is in a quote	past	honesty				of you; thoughtful property	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:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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