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title: "Less than candid" is an official way to say dishonest; "candid" mea… — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Less than candid" is an official way to say dishonest; "candid" means open and honest. Who acts: Less, candid. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 6

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"Less than candid" is an official way to say dishonest; "candid" means open and honest.

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**Who acts:** Less, candid · **What happens:** be, say, mean · **To what, where:** official way, dishonest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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 (Less, candid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:6
# text = "Less than candid" is an official way to say dishonest; "candid" means open and honest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 029-lying-and-drinking.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	nsubj	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	candid	candid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	candid	candid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Less | a official way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | dishonest |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dishonest=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | candid |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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