White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 8

The thinker Kant said even small lies are wrong; others think a tiny lie that only spares feelings can be fine, but that small lies add up.

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

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the thinker			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	small lies		wrong property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	others			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spare	present	a tiny lie	feelings		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent feeling=Asset
5	is	can	a tiny lie		fine property	tree rules
6	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:8.

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 ×2, 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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