--- title: Being told the truth gently is usually easier than finding out by ac… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics description: Being told the truth gently is usually easier than finding out by accident. A sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/53/) [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/) / [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/) / 53 # Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 53 Being told the truth gently is usually easier than finding out by accident. **What happens:** tell, be, find out · **To what, where:** truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:53 # text = Being told the truth gently is usually easier than finding out by accident. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 csubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 gently gently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 9 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive | | the truth | | | | gently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: truth=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | easy, usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find out** | gerund | | | | | | by accident | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:53`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…, 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/52/) - next →: [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…, 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/54/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/)