Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 9

A good way through is often to encourage the friend to own up first, and to give them a chance before you tell.

Who acts: good way, you · What happens: be, own up, give, tell · To what, where: chance, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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 (good way, you), 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 way	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 encourage	nsubj
4	through	through	ADP	_	3 way	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 encourage	cop
6	often	often	ADV	_	8 encourage	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 encourage	mark
8	encourage	encourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 friend	det
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 encourage	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 own	mark
12	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 encourage	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 own	compound:prt
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 own	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 encourage	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chance	det
21	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 tell	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 give	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 encourage	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a good way			encourage, often property	tree rules
2	own up not said to happen	to-infinitive	a good way not said here			first property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	give	to-infinitive	a good way not said here	a chance	things = thing		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	you				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:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:9.

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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