--- title: "We'll see" often means "probably not, but I don't want to say no no… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: "We'll see" often means "probably not, but I don't want to say no now", and sometimes it really means "I need to think". Who acts: We, calm, it. A sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/14/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sorry, white lies and «because I said…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/) / 14 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 14 "We'll see" often means "probably not, but I don't want to say no now", and sometimes it really means "I need to think". **Who acts:** We, calm, it · **What happens:** see, not mean, not want, say, mean, need · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life 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 (We, calm, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:14 # text = "We'll see" often means "probably not, but I don't want to say no now", and sometimes it really means "I need to think". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 probably probably ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 18 discourse _ _ 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 really really ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | future | We | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a calm *= calm* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a calm *= calm* *not said here* | | | | now | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **need** *in a quote* | present | a calm *= calm* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a calm *= calm* *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:14`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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