--- title: Some philosophers say that if everyone understands "lovely dinner" a… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: Some philosophers say that if everyone understands "lovely dinner" as "thank you", it may not be a lie at all; "Let your conversation be always full of grace" (Colossians 4:6). Who acts: philosophers, everyone, dinner, conversation. 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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 (philosophers, everyone, dinner, conversation), 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:17 # text = Some philosophers say that if everyone understands "lovely dinner" as "thank you", it may not be a lie at all; "Let your conversation be always full of grace" (Colossians 4:6). # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 philosophers philosopher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 understands understand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 32 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 33 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Colossians colossian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 39 4:6 4:6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 flat _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some philosophers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **understand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | everyone | lovely dinner | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is a** | may | dinner | a lie | | all | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your conversation | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | your conversation *not said here* | | | | | of grace; always, full *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **converse** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:17`. **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, 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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