Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 6
Aristotle's middle way: a true friend speaks up when it matters, but kindly and in private.
Who acts: true friend, it · What happens: speak up, matter
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 (true friend, it), 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 | Aristotle | Aristotle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Aristotle | case |
| 3 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | appos |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 speaks | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friend | amod |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speaks | nsubj |
| 9 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 speaks | compound:prt |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 matters | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 matters | nsubj |
| 13 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 speaks | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 private | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 private | cc |
| 16 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 19 private | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 private | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 private | case |
| 19 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 speaks | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other | present | a true friend | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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:6.
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 ×1, 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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