White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 13

Proverbs 27:6: "Wounds from a friend can be trusted." Aristotle said the virtue lies in the middle: not a flatterer and not a brute.

Who acts: Aristotle, virtue · What happens: trust, say, lie · To what, where: Wounds, middle · 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 (Aristotle, virtue), 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	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	dep
2	27:6	27:6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Proverbs	nmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 trusted	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Wounds	punct
5	Wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 trusted	nsubj:pass
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Wounds	nmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 trusted	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 trusted	aux:pass
11	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 27:6	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 27:6	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Aristotle	punct
14	Aristotle	Aristotle	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 virtue	det
17	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lies	nsubj
18	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lies	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 flatterer	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 flatterer	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 flatterer	det
25	flatterer	flatterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 middle	appos
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brute	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 brute	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 brute	det
29	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flatterer	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	trust in a quote	can · passive		Wounds from a friend		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Aristotle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie	present	the virtue		the middle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

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:13.

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): 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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