--- title: When someone sincerely asks for honest feedback, kind, polite honest… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: When someone sincerely asks for honest feedback, kind, polite honesty helps them; "An honest witness tells the truth" (Proverbs 12:17). Who acts: someone, kind polite honesty, honest witness. 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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 (someone, kind polite honesty, honest witness), 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:15 # text = When someone sincerely asks for honest feedback, kind, polite honesty helps them; "An honest witness tells the truth" (Proverbs 12:17). # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 sincerely sincerely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 feedback feedback NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Proverbs proverb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNPS:Number=Plur 26 12:17 12:17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | someone | | | | | for honest feedback; sincerely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **help** | present | kind polite honesty | Christians *= christian* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | a honest witness | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic | 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:15`. **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, 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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