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title: Ollie's mate has started wearing a hat he thinks gives him "rizz" (c… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics
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# Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 1

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Ollie's mate has started wearing a hat he thinks gives him "rizz" (charm, being cool), and everyone laughs behind his back; a quiet, kind word from Ollie is better than letting him be laughed at.

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**Who acts:** mate, charm, everyone, quiet kind word · **What happens:** start, wear, think, give, be, laugh · **To what, where:** hat, rizz, mate, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mate, charm, everyone, quiet kind word), 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:1
# text = Ollie's mate has started wearing a hat he thinks gives him "rizz" (charm, being cool), and everyone laughs behind his back; a quiet, kind word from Ollie is better than letting him be laughed at.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	rizz	rizz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
39	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	xcomp	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present · perfect | Ollie's mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | Ollie's mate *not said here* | a hat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | mate | a hat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hat=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present |  | rizz | mate |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rizz=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | charm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **laugh** | present | everyone |  |  | mate's back |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | a quiet kind word from Ollie |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **let** | gerund | a quiet kind word from Ollie *not said here* | mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **laugh** | infinitive · passive | mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V» |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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