--- title: Telling the truth about who started a fight is fair, even when it is… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics description: Telling the truth about who started a fight is fair, even when it is your own friend. Who acts: truth, Telling, fight. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Speaking up is bravery too](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/) / 23 # Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 23 Telling the truth about who started a fight is fair, even when it is your own friend. **Who acts:** truth, Telling, fight · **What happens:** tell, start, be · **To what, where:** truth, fight, own friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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, Telling, fight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:23 # text = Telling the truth about who started a fight is fair, even when it is your own friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 2 | **start** | past | the truth | a fight | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | Telling | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | fight | your own friend | | | | | tree rules | 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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:23`. **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/). - ← previous: [Speaking up is bravery too, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/22/) - next →: [Speaking up is bravery too, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/)