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title: Honesty and good manners show respect: telling the truth keeps trust… — Growing up, honesty and manners · tree and pragmatics
description: Honesty and good manners show respect: telling the truth keeps trust, and lost things go back to their owners. Who acts: Honesty, telling, lost things. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Growing up, honesty and manners, sentence 2

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Honesty and good manners show respect: telling the truth keeps trust, and lost things go back to their owners.

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**Who acts:** Honesty, telling, lost things · **What happens:** show, tell, keep, go back · **To what, where:** respect, truth, trust · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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 (Honesty, telling, lost things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:2
# text = Honesty and good manners show respect: telling the truth keeps trust, and lost things go back to their owners.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	conj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
8	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	lost	lose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **show** | present | Honesty and good manners | respect |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 3 | **keep** | present | telling | trust |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme |
| 4 | **go back** | present | lost things |  |  |  |  | to things's owners *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to owner=Result |

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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:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:2`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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

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