Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 8

A white lie is a small lie told to be polite or to spare feelings; people disagree about whether white lies are right.

Who acts: white lie, small lie, people, white lies · What happens: be, tell, spare, disagree · To what, where: small lie, feelings · 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 (white lie, small lie, people, white lies), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lie	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lie	amod
3	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lie	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lie	amod
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lie	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 polite	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 polite	cop
11	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	xcomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 spare	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 spare	mark
14	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 polite	conj
15	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spare	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 disagree	punct
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 disagree	nsubj
18	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	parataxis
19	about	about	SCONJ	_	24 right	mark
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 right	mark
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lies	amod
22	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 right	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 disagree	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a white lie	a small lie		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		a small lie not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	a small lie not said here		polite property	tree rules
4	spare	to-infinitive	a small lie not said here	feelings		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent feeling=Asset
5	disagree	present	people			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	white lies		right 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:8.

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, 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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