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title: Keeping quiet about a haircut or a lunch you would not choose is not… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics
description: Keeping quiet about a haircut or a lunch you would not choose is not lying; it is good manners. Who acts: you, Keeping, opinion. 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 5

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Keeping quiet about a haircut or a lunch you would not choose is not lying; it is good manners.

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**Who acts:** you, Keeping, opinion · **What happens:** keep, not choose, not lie, be · **To what, where:** lunch, good manners

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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 (you, Keeping, opinion), 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:5
# text = Keeping quiet about a haircut or a lunch you would not choose is not lying; it is good manners.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	haircut	haircut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **keep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **choose** | would | you | a lunch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **lie** | present · progressive | Keeping |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | opinion | good manners |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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