White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 15
When someone sincerely asks for honest feedback, kind, polite honesty helps them; "An honest witness tells the truth" (Proverbs 12:17).
Who acts: someone, kind polite honesty, honest witness · What happens: ask, help, tell · To what, where: Christians, truth · 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 (someone, kind polite honesty, honest witness), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 asks | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | sincerely | sincerely | ADV | _ | 4 asks | advmod |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 helps | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 feedback | case |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feedback | amod |
| 7 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 honesty | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
| 11 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 honesty | amod |
| 12 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helps | nsubj |
| 13 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 helps | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 tells | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tells | punct |
| 17 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 witness | det |
| 18 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 witness | amod |
| 19 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tells | nsubj |
| 20 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 helps | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 truth | det |
| 22 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tells | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 truth | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Proverbs | punct |
| 25 | Proverbs | proverb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tells | parataxis |
| 26 | 12:17 | 12:17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Proverbs | flat |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 Proverbs | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | someone | for honest feedback; sincerely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | present | kind polite honesty | Christians = christian | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | a honest witness | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic |
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:15.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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