White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 17
Some philosophers say that if everyone understands "lovely dinner" as "thank you", it may not be a lie at all; "Let your conversation be always full of grace" (Colossians 4:6).
Who acts: philosophers, everyone, dinner, conversation, your · What happens: say, understand, thank, not be, let, be · To what, where: lovely dinner, you, lie, all, conversation · 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 (philosophers, everyone, dinner, conversation), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 philosophers | det |
| 2 | philosophers | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 lie | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 understands | mark |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 understands | nsubj |
| 7 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lie | advcl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dinner | punct |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dinner | amod |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understands | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dinner | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 thank | mark |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thank | punct |
| 14 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 understands | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 thank | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thank | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 understands | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lie | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lie | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 lie | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lie | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lie | det |
| 23 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | ccomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 lie | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 full | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Let | punct |
| 28 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 30 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Let | obj |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 full | cop |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 full | advmod |
| 33 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Let | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 grace | case |
| 35 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 full | obl |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 full | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 Colossians | punct |
| 38 | Colossians | colossian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Let | parataxis |
| 39 | 4:6 | 4:6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 Colossians | flat |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 Colossians | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | some philosophers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | understand a condition, not said to happen | present | everyone | lovely dinner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is a | may | dinner | a lie | all | tree rules | |||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | your conversation | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | your conversation not said here | of grace; always, full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | converse in a quote | your | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:17.
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, 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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