--- title: Some are polite habits, some are small kind untruths called white li… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: Some are polite habits, some are small kind untruths called white lies, and some are real, important feelings like sorry and proud. Who acts: Some, small kind untruths. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, small kind untruths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:1 # text = Some are polite habits, some are small kind untruths called white lies, and some are real, important feelings like sorry and proud. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 untruths untruth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Some | polite habits | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | some | small kind untruths | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | small kind untruths *not said here* | white lies | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | some | | | | | important feelings like sorry *obl*; real *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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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