--- title: A good way through is often to encourage the friend to own up first,… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: A good way through is often to encourage the friend to own up first, and to give them a chance before you tell. Who acts: good way, you. 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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 (good way, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:9 # text = A good way through is often to encourage the friend to own up first, and to give them a chance before you tell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 3 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 encourage encourage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 own own VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a good way | | | | | encourage, often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **own up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a good way *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | a good way *not said here* | a chance | things *= thing* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:9`. **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: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/8/) - next →: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/)