--- title: Aristotle's middle way: a true friend speaks up when it matters, but… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: Aristotle's middle way: a true friend speaks up when it matters, but kindly and in private. Who acts: true friend, it. 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 pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/) / 6 # Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 6 Aristotle's middle way: a true friend speaks up when it matters, but kindly and in private. **Who acts:** true friend, it · **What happens:** speak up, matter 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 (true friend, it), 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:6 # text = Aristotle's middle way: a true friend speaks up when it matters, but kindly and in private. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Aristotle Aristotle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak up** *speech: other* | present | a true friend | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **matter** | present | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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:6`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/5/) - next →: [Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/)