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title: A comforting truth, like «It was not your fault», is the best kind o… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics
description: A comforting truth, like «It was not your fault», is the best kind of kindness. Who acts: truth, comforting truth. 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 14

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A comforting truth, like «It was not your fault», is the best kind of kindness.

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**Who acts:** truth, comforting truth · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** fault, best kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (truth, comforting truth), 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:14
# text = A comforting truth, like «It was not your fault», is the best kind of kindness.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	comforting	comforting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past | truth | your fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a comforting truth | the best kind |  |  |  | of kindness | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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