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title: Telling the truth quickly usually means smaller trouble and easier f… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling the truth quickly usually means smaller trouble and easier forgiveness. Who acts: Telling. A sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Forgiving, sentence 49

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Telling the truth quickly usually means smaller trouble and easier forgiveness.

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**Who acts:** Telling · **What happens:** tell, mean · **To what, where:** truth, smaller trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (Telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:454-forgiving.lesson:49
# text = Telling the truth quickly usually means smaller trouble and easier forgiveness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 454-forgiving.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the truth |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Telling | smaller trouble and easier forgiveness |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic |

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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:454-forgiving.lesson:49`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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