--- title: If a "We'll see" matters to you, ask calmly what would need to chang… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: If a "We'll see" matters to you, ask calmly what would need to change for it to become a yes. Who acts: We, you, calm. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 15 If a "We'll see" matters to you, ask calmly what would need to change for it to become a yes. **Who acts:** We, you, calm · **What happens:** see, matter, ask, need, change, become · **To what, where:** you, yes · **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, you, calm), 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:15 # text = If a "We'll see" matters to you, ask calmly what would need to change for it to become a yes. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 12 xcomp _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 yes yes NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **matter** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | | | you | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to you=Experiencer | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **need** | would | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **change** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **become** | to-infinitive | calm | a yes | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:15`. **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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