Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 9

Some philosophers say tricky true words are better than a lie; others say any attempt to mislead is the same wrong.

Who acts: philosophers, tricky true words, others, attempt · What happens: say, be, mislead · 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 (philosophers, tricky true words, others, attempt), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 philosophers	det
2	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 better	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 better	cop
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 say	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 lie	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lie	det
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 attempt	det
16	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wrong	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 mislead	mark
18	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 attempt	acl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wrong	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wrong	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wrong	amod
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 say	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some philosophers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	tricky true words	than a lie; good property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	others		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	mislead	to-infinitive	any attempt not said here		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	any attempt	wrong property	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:9.

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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