White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 18

Timing matters: "There is a time to be silent and a time to speak" (Ecclesiastes 3:7); the Buddha taught to say what is true and helpful at the right time.

Who acts: Timing, time, Buddha · What happens: matter, be, speak, teach, say · To what, where: Ecclesiastes · 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 (Timing, time, Buddha), 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	Timing	timing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
5	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 silent	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 silent	cop
11	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 time	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	acl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Ecclesiastes	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 Ecclesiastes	punct
19	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 speak	obj
20	3:7	3:7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 Ecclesiastes	flat
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 Ecclesiastes	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 taught	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Buddha	det
24	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 taught	nsubj
25	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 taught	xcomp
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 true	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 true	cop
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 say	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 helpful	cc
32	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 true	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	36 time	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 time	det
35	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 true	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Timing					tree rules
2	does in a quote	present	a time and a time		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive	a time and a time not said here				silent property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	a time and a time not said here	Ecclesiastes				tree rules
5	teach speech: other	past	the Buddha					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Buddha not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present				time	true property	tree rules
8	be							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:18.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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