--- title: Some philosophers say tricky true words are better than a lie; other… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: Some philosophers say tricky true words are better than a lie; others say any attempt to mislead is the same wrong. Who acts: philosophers, tricky true words, others, attempt. 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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 (philosophers, tricky true words, others, attempt), 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:9 # text = Some philosophers say tricky true words are better than a lie; others say any attempt to mislead is the same wrong. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 philosophers philosopher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 ccomp _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 mislead mislead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some philosophers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | tricky true words | | | | | than a lie; good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mislead** | to-infinitive | any attempt *not said here* | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | any attempt | | | | | wrong *property* | 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:9`. **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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