--- title: Asking kindly, "Does it hurt?" gives an older person a chance to be… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: Asking kindly, "Does it hurt?" gives an older person a chance to be honest. Who acts: way. 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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 17 Asking kindly, "Does it hurt?" gives an older person a chance to be honest. **Who acts:** way · **What happens:** ask, hurt, give, be · **To what, where:** chance, older person · **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 (way), 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:17 # text = Asking kindly, "Does it hurt?" gives an older person a chance to be honest. # 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 ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 1 punct _ _ 5 Does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 18 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | way *not said here* | | | | | kindly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present · do-support | way | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | present | | a chance | a older person | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient chance=Theme | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | | a chance *not said here* | | | | honest *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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:17`. **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. **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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