White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 12

If something is done and cannot change, find something true and nice to say; if someone is asking before deciding, be gently honest.

Who acts: you, something, someone · What happens: do, not change, find, say, ask, decide · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» 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 (you, something, someone), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 done	mark
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 find	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 change	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 change	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 change	advmod
8	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
10	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 find	obj
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nice	cc
14	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 true	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nice	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 honest	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 asking	mark
19	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 asking	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 asking	aux
21	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 honest	advcl
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 deciding	mark
23	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 asking	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asking	punct
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 honest	cop
26	gently	gently	ADV	_	27 honest	advmod
27	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 find	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	not change	can				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	imperative	you not said here	something		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	something not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	someone			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	decide	gerund	someone not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	infinitive	you not said here		gently, honest 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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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