--- title: The thinker Kant said even small lies are wrong; others think a tiny… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: The thinker Kant said even small lies are wrong; others think a tiny lie that only spares feelings can be fine, but that small lies add up. Who acts: thinker, small lies, others, tiny lie. 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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 (thinker, small lies, others, tiny lie), 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:8 # text = The thinker Kant said even small lies are wrong; others think a tiny lie that only spares feelings can be fine, but 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thinker thinker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Kant Kant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 spares spare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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* | past | the thinker | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | small lies | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | others | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spare** | present | a tiny lie | feelings | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent feeling=Asset | | 5 | **is** | can | a tiny lie | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **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:8`. **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 ×2, 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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