--- title: A mistake told is a problem shared; a mistake hidden becomes a lie o… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics description: A mistake told is a problem shared; a mistake hidden becomes a lie on top of a mistake (Proverbs 12:22: the Lord "delights in people who are trustworthy"). Who acts: mistake, Lord, people. 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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 (mistake, Lord, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:8 # text = A mistake told is a problem shared; a mistake hidden becomes a lie on top of a mistake (Proverbs 12:22: the Lord "delights in people who are trustworthy"). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Proverbs proverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 12:22 12:22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 delights delight VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 trustworthy trustworthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | a mistake *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a problem | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **share** | participle | a mistake | a problem *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hide** | participle | | a mistake *not said here* | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **become** | present | a mistake | a lie on top of a mistake and Proverbs | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **delight** *in a quote* | present | the Lord | | | | | in people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | people | | | | | trustworthy *property* | tree rules | 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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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. 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