Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 17
Name the real good bits ("the pancakes were amazing") instead of a white lie, and save the rest for a quiet word later.
Who acts: you, pancakes · What happens: name, be, save · To what, where: real good bits, rest · 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 (you, pancakes), 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 | Name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bits | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bits | amod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bits | amod |
| 5 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Name | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazing | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazing | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pancakes | det |
| 9 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 amazing | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 amazing | cop |
| 11 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bits | parataxis |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazing | punct |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazing | punct |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 lie | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lie | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lie | amod |
| 18 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Name | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 save | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 save | cc |
| 21 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Name | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 save | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 word | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 word | det |
| 26 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 word | amod |
| 27 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 save | obl |
| 28 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 save | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | imperative | you not said here | the real good bits | instead a white lie | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the pancakes | amazing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | you not said here | the rest | for a quiet word; late property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rest=Theme for word=Source |
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:17.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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