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title: You don't have to repeat every hurt you know: "Whoever would foster… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics
description: You don't have to repeat every hurt you know: "Whoever would foster love covers over an offence, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends" (Proverbs 17:9); but don't say "no" if it's false. Who acts: You, Whoever, no. A sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 
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# Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 12

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You don't have to repeat every hurt you know: "Whoever would foster love covers over an offence, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends" (Proverbs 17:9); but don't say "no" if it's false.

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**Who acts:** You, Whoever, no · **What happens:** not have, repeat, know, foster, cover, separate · **To what, where:** hurt, love, offence, matter, close friends, no · **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 (You, Whoever, no), 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:12
# text = You don't have to repeat every hurt you know: "Whoever would foster love covers over an offence, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends" (Proverbs 17:9); but don't say "no" if it's false.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	foster	foster	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	csubj	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	offence	offence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	repeats	repeat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj
27	separates	separate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
33	17:9	17:9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
41	no	no	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | every hurt |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Eventuality |
| 3 | **know** | present | you | every hurt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hurt=Stimulus |
| 4 | **foster** *in a quote* | would | Whoever | love |  | a offence |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cover** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **repeat** *in a quote* | present | whoever | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **separate** *in a quote* | present |  | close friends |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive · do-support |  | no |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 9 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | no |  |  |  |  | false *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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