White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 4
Christians are asked to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15): honest words said gently, at the right time, for the good of the listener.
Who acts: Christians · What happens: ask, speak, say · To what, where: Christians, truth, love, honest words · 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 (Christians), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | aux:pass |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 speak | mark |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 truth | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 truth | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 truth | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ephesians | punct |
| 13 | Ephesians | ephesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 truth | appos |
| 14 | 4:15 | 4:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Ephesians | flat |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ephesians | punct |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 words | amod |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 truth | conj |
| 20 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 19 said | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 good | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 good | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 good | det |
| 29 | good | good | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 listener | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 listener | det |
| 32 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 good | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | 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 · passive | Christians | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Christians not said here | the truth | love | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | participle · passive | honest words | time | for the good of the listener; gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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:4.
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. 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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