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title: "Economical with the truth" means lying or leaving out important fac… — Soft words for hard things: business and adverti… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Economical with the truth" means lying or leaving out important facts (UK). A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 24

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"Economical with the truth" means lying or leaving out important facts (UK).

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**What happens:** mean, lie, leave out · **To what, where:** important facts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» of the euphemisms 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:24
# text = "Economical with the truth" means lying or leaving out important facts (UK).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 023-fees-bugs-and-spin.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Economical	economical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	csubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** *not said to happen* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave out** | gerund |  | important facts |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |

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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:euphemisms:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:24`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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