--- title: Kind honesty matters most when someone will act on your answer: a fr… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics description: Kind honesty matters most when someone will act on your answer: a friend about to sing at a talent show needs a gentle true tip, not a false «it's perfect». Who acts: Kind honesty, someone, friend, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kind honesty, someone, friend, 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:7 # text = Kind honesty matters most when someone will act on your answer: a friend about to sing at a talent show needs a gentle true tip, not a false «it's perfect». # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod 2 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 15 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 talent talent NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | Kind honesty | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **act** | future | someone | | | your answer | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on answer=Eventuality | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | a friend *not said here* | | | a talent show | | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at show=Location | | 4 | **need** | present | a friend | a gentle true tip | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tip=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | friend | | | | | perfect *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **answer** | | your | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [White lies and kind silence, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/5/) - next →: [White lies and kind silence, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/)