--- title: With a friend's harmless boast, have a quiet word in private rather… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics description: With a friend's harmless boast, have a quiet word in private rather than exposing him: "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given" (Proverbs 25:14). Who acts: you, quiet word, clouds, friend. 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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 (you, quiet word, clouds, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:12 # text = With a friend's harmless boast, have a quiet word in private rather than exposing him: "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given" (Proverbs 25:14). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 have have VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark 13 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 rather rather ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 than than SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 exposing expose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 parataxis _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 boasts boast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Proverbs proverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 37 25:14 25:14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nmod _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | a quiet word | | | | with a friend's harmless boast | tree rules | | 2 | **expose** | gerund | a quiet word *not said here* | honesty | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | clouds without rain and wind | one | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **boast** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | | Proverbs 25:14 | | | | of gifts | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | participle | | gifts *not said here* | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **boast** | | a friend | | | | | | nom boast «communication intransitive»: 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:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:12`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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