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title: Being honest inside means checking your own story: Rachel wrote that… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being honest inside means checking your own story: Rachel wrote that a fight was all her friend's fault, and reading her diary a week later she's not so sure. Who acts: Rachel, fight. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion ethics course o
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 1

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Being honest inside means checking your own story: Rachel wrote that a fight was all her friend's fault, and reading her diary a week later she's not so sure.

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**Who acts:** Rachel, fight · **What happens:** be, mean, check, write, read, not be · **To what, where:** own story, fault, diary · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 (Rachel, fight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:1
# text = Being honest inside means checking your own story: Rachel wrote that a fight was all her friend's fault, and reading her diary a week later she's not so sure.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	csubj	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | honest, inside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **check** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | your own story |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **write** | past | Rachel |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | a fight | Rachel's friend's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **read** | gerund | Rachel *not said here* | Rachel's diary |  |  |  | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | Rachel |  |  |  |  | sure *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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**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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:1`.

**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, 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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