--- title: Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt peop… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not. Who acts: Most people, tiny kind lies, big lies. 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 an --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 9 Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not. **Who acts:** Most people, tiny kind lies, big lies · **What happens:** think, not be, hurt, hide · **To what, where:** people, important things · **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 (Most people, tiny kind lies, big lies), 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:9 # text = Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 OK ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hurt hurt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 18 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Most people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | tiny kind lies | | | | | ok *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | present | big lies | people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | | 4 | **hide** | present | big lies *not said here* | important things | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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: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): 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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