--- title: A kind truth is something true said in a way that helps: in private,… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: A kind truth is something true said in a way that helps: in private, at the right time, with care for the person who hears it. Who acts: kind truth, way, person. 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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 (kind truth, way, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:0 # text = A kind truth is something true said in a way that helps: in private, at the right time, with care for the person who hears it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a kind truth | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | a way | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in way=Manner | | 3 | **help** | present | a way | | | private | time | with care for the person | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with care=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | present | the person | truth | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:0`. **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 ×2. **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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