Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 4

Watch out for half-lies: vague words meant to mislead, or "just joking" after a hurtful lie, are not honest, even if every word sounds clever.

Who acts: you, vague words, word · What happens: watch out, mean, mislead, joke, not be, sound

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, vague words, word), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Watch	compound:prt
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 lies	case
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 lies	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 meant	punct
8	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 honest	nsubj
10	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 words	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 mislead	mark
12	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 meant	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 joking	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 joking	cc
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 joking	punct
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 joking	advmod
17	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 words	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 joking	punct
19	after	after	ADP	_	22 lie	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lie	det
21	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lie	amod
22	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 joking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 honest	punct
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 honest	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 honest	advmod
26	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Watch	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sounds	punct
28	even	even	ADV	_	32 sounds	advmod
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 sounds	mark
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 word	det
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sounds	nsubj
32	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 honest	advcl
33	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sounds	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	watch out	imperative	you not said here		for half lies	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for lie=Theme
2	mean	past	vague words not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mislead not said to happen	to-infinitive	vague words not said here			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	joke speech: other in a quote	gerund	vague words not said here	after a hurtful lie		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	vague words		honest property	tree rules
6	sound a condition, not said to happen	present	every word		clever property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: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): 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.

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