--- title: The trick is to look for the true kind thing: thank people for their… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: The trick is to look for the true kind thing: thank people for their love, effort and time, and praise what you really do like, so you rarely need the lie. Who acts: trick, you, people. 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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 (trick, you, people), 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:3 # text = The trick is to look for the true kind thing: thank people for their love, effort and time, and praise what you really do like, so you rarely need the lie. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 praise praise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 really really ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the trick | | | | | for the true kind thing; look *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | people | | | for people's love and effort and time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent people=Theme for love=Attribute | | 3 | **praise** | present | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **like** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 5 | **need** | present | you | the lie | | | | rarely *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme | | 6 | **love** | | people | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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:3`. **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): 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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