--- title: If something is done and cannot change, find something true and nice… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: If something is done and cannot change, find something true and nice to say; if someone is asking before deciding, be gently honest. Who acts: you, something, someone. 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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, something, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:12 # text = If something is done and cannot change, find something true and nice to say; if someone is asking before deciding, be gently honest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 26 gently gently ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **change** | can | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | something | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | someone | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **decide** | gerund | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | gently, honest *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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.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): R2-punct-next ×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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