--- title: Timing matters: "There is a time to be silent and a time to speak" (… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: Timing matters: "There is a time to be silent and a time to speak" (Ecclesiastes 3:7); the Buddha taught to say what is true and helpful at the right time. Who acts: Timing, time, Buddha. 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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 (Timing, time, Buddha), 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:18 # text = Timing matters: "There is a time to be silent and a time to speak" (Ecclesiastes 3:7); the Buddha taught to say what is true and helpful at the right time. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Timing timing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 3:7 3:7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | Timing | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | a time and a time | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a time and a time *not said here* | | | | | silent *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a time and a time *not said here* | Ecclesiastes | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the Buddha | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Buddha *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | time | true *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | | | | | | | 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:18`. **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 ×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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