White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 5

Thinkers disagree about white lies: Kant said even small lies are wrong, others say a tiny lie that only spares feelings can be fine, and many warn that small lies add up.

Who acts: Thinkers, Kant, small lies, others, tiny lie, many · What happens: disagree, say, be, spare, warn, add up · To what, where: feelings · 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 (Thinkers, Kant, small lies, others), 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	Thinkers	thinker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disagree	nsubj
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 lies	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lies	amod
5	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disagree	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	Kant	Kant	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 disagree	parataxis
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 lies	advmod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lies	amod
11	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wrong	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wrong	cop
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lie	det
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lie	amod
19	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fine	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 spares	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 spares	advmod
22	spares	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lie	acl:relcl
23	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spares	obj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fine	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 fine	cop
26	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 warn	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 warn	cc
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 warn	nsubj
30	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 add	mark
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lies	amod
33	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 add	nsubj
34	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 warn	ccomp
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 add	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 disagree	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	Thinkers		about white lies	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about lie=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Kant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	small lies		wrong property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	spare	present	a tiny lie	feelings		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent feeling=Asset
6	is	can	a tiny lie		fine property	tree rules
7	warn speech: warn	present	many			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	add up speech: assert	present	small lies			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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:5.

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. 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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