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title: The myth was convenient, and convenient myths can hide unkindness. — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics
description: The myth was convenient, and convenient myths can hide unkindness. Who acts: myth, convenient myths. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 2

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The myth was convenient, and convenient myths can hide unkindness.

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**Who acts:** myth, convenient myths · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** unkindness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 (myth, convenient myths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:2
# text = The myth was convenient, and convenient myths can hide unkindness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	convenient	convenient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	convenient	convenient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	unkindness	unkindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | past | the myth |  |  |  |  | convenient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | can | convenient myths | unkindness |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unkindness=Patient |

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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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:2`.

**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/).

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