--- title: Kind truths often mix three things: notice the real good, say the tr… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: Kind truths often mix three things: notice the real good, say the true thing gently, and offer help, like "the chorus is catchy, the drums need work, want to practise?" Who acts: Kind truths, chorus, drums. 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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 truths, chorus, drums), 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:2 # text = Kind truths often mix three things: notice the real good, say the true thing gently, and offer help, like "the chorus is catchy, the drums need work, want to practise?" # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 truths truth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 mix mix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 gently gently ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 21 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 like like SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 chorus chorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 catchy catchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 practise practise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix** | present | Kind truths | three things | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **notice** | infinitive | | the real good | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | the true thing | | | | gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 4 | **offer** | infinitive | | help | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent help=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the chorus | | | | | catchy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **need** *in a quote* | present | the drums | work | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot work=Theme | | 7 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the drums *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **practise** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the drums *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×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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