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title: Name the real good bits ("the pancakes were amazing") instead of a w… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics
description: Name the real good bits ("the pancakes were amazing") instead of a white lie, and save the rest for a quiet word later. Who acts: you, pancakes. A sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 17

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Name the real good bits ("the pancakes were amazing") instead of a white lie, and save the rest for a quiet word later.

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**Who acts:** you, pancakes · **What happens:** name, be, save · **To what, where:** real good bits, rest · **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, pancakes), 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:17
# text = Name the real good bits ("the pancakes were amazing") instead of a white lie, and save the rest for a quiet word later.
# 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): no change
1	Name	name	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | imperative | you *not said here* | the real good bits |  |  |  | instead a white lie | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the pancakes |  |  |  |  | amazing *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  | for a quiet word; late *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rest=Theme for word=Source |

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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): no change. **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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