--- title: Thinkers disagree about white lies: Kant said even small lies are wr… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: Thinkers disagree about white lies: Kant said even small lies are wrong, others say a tiny lie that only spares feelings can be fine, and many warn that small lies add up. Who acts: Thinkers, Kant, small lies, others. 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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 (Thinkers, Kant, small lies, others), 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:5 # text = Thinkers disagree about white lies: Kant said even small lies are wrong, others say a tiny lie that only spares feelings can be fine, and many warn that small lies add up. # 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 1 Thinkers thinker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Kant Kant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 spares spare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 nsubj _ _ 30 warn warn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disagree** | present | Thinkers | | | | | about white lies | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about lie=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | small lies | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spare** | present | a tiny lie | feelings | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent feeling=Asset | | 6 | **is** | can | a tiny lie | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | many | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | small lies | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:5`. **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. **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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