Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 0
A kind truth is something true said in a way that helps: in private, at the right time, with care for the person who hears it.
Who acts: kind truth, way, person · What happens: be, say, help, hear · To what, where: something, way, private, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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 (kind truth, way, person), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 truth | amod |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 something | cop |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 helps | nsubj |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 private | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 private | case |
| 15 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 helps | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 private | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helps | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 care | case |
| 23 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helps | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 person | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 person | det |
| 26 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 care | nmod |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 hears | nsubj |
| 28 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 person | acl:relcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hears | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 something | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a kind truth | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | a way | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in way=Manner | |||||
| 3 | help | present | a way | private | time | with care for the person | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with care=Theme | ||
| 4 | hear | present | the person | truth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:0.
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 ×2. 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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