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title: Honest, gentle encouragement helps people improve and keeps your wor… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics
description: Honest, gentle encouragement helps people improve and keeps your word trustworthy. Who acts: Honest gentle encouragement, people, your. A sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# White lies and kind silence, sentence 12

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Honest, gentle encouragement helps people improve and keeps your word trustworthy.

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**Who acts:** Honest gentle encouragement, people, your · **What happens:** help, improve, keep, word · **To what, where:** people, word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» 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 (Honest gentle encouragement, people, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:12
# text = Honest, gentle encouragement helps people improve and keeps your word trustworthy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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	Honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	trustworthy	trustworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **help** | present | Honest gentle encouragement | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **improve** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | present | Honest gentle encouragement *not said here* | your word |  |  |  | trustworthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:12`.

**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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