--- title: Proverbs 27:6: "Wounds from a friend can be trusted." Aristotle said… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: Proverbs 27:6: "Wounds from a friend can be trusted." Aristotle said the virtue lies in the middle: not a flatterer and not a brute. Who acts: Aristotle, virtue. 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Aristotle said the virtue lies in the middle: not a flatterer and not a brute. **Who acts:** Aristotle, virtue · **What happens:** trust, say, lie · **To what, where:** Wounds, middle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» of the religion ethics 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 (Aristotle, virtue), 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:13 # text = Proverbs 27:6: "Wounds from a friend can be trusted." Aristotle said the virtue lies in the middle: not a flatterer and not a brute. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Proverbs proverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 dep _ _ 2 27:6 27:6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 14 Aristotle Aristotle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 flatterer flatterer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 brute brute NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** *in a quote* | can · passive | | Wounds from a friend | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aristotle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lie** | present | the virtue | | | the middle | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | 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:13`. **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): 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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