Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 8

Christians ask whether words are meant to mislead, not only whether they are technically true: "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes'" (Matthew 5:37).

Who acts: Christians · What happens: ask, mean, mislead, be, let · To what, where: words · 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 (Christians), 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	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 meant	mark
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 meant	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux:pass
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ask	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 mislead	mark
8	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meant	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 only	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 only	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	8 mislead	advmod
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 true	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 true	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
15	technically	technically	ADV	_	16 true	advmod
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 only	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
19	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	parataxis
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Yes	nmod:poss
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 Yes	punct
22	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	19 Let	obj
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 Yes	punct
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 Yes	cop
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 Yes	punct
26	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	19 Let	xcomp
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 Yes	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 Matthew	punct
30	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Let	parataxis
31	5:37	5:37	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 Matthew	flat
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 Matthew	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Christians			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present · passive		words		tree rules
3	mislead not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	Christians = christian		technically, true property	tree rules
5	let in a quote	infinitive				tree rules

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:8.

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 ×4, 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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