Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 7

Coaches say criticism helps in practice, not at the starting line; before a show, encourage, and after it, talk about getting better.

Who acts: Coaches, criticism · What happens: say, help, encourage, talk, get · To what, where: practice · 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 (Coaches, criticism), 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	Coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	criticism	criticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 practice	case
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 line	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 line	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 line	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 line	det
11	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 line	compound
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practice	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 show	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 show	det
16	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 encourage	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 show	punct
18	encourage	encourage	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 helps	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 talk	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 talk	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 talk	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 it	punct
24	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 encourage	conj
25	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 getting	mark
26	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 talk	advcl
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 getting	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Coaches				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help	present	criticism	practice and the starting line			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	encourage	infinitive			before a show		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	talk	infinitive			after criticism		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	gerund				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:7.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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