White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 3

The trick is to look for the true kind thing: thank people for their love, effort and time, and praise what you really do like, so you rarely need the lie.

Who acts: trick, you, people · What happens: be, thank, praise, like, need, love · To what, where: people, lie

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 (trick, you, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 thing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 thank	punct
12	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	parataxis
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thank	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 love	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 love	nmod:poss
16	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thank	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 effort	punct
18	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 love	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 time	cc
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 effort	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 praise	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 praise	cc
23	praise	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thank	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 like	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
26	really	really	ADV	_	28 like	advmod
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 praise	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 need	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 need	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 need	nsubj
32	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	33 need	advmod
33	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 praise	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lie	det
35	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 need	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the trick			for the true kind thing; look property	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	present			people	for people's love and effort and time	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent people=Theme for love=Attribute
3	praise	present					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	like	present · do-support	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	need	present	you	the lie		rarely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme
6	love		people				nom love «feeling transitive»: 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:3.

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): 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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