--- title: "Stretching the truth" means exaggerating so much that it becomes ly… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: "Stretching the truth" means exaggerating so much that it becomes lying. Who acts: Stretching, truth. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/) / 17 # Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 17 "Stretching the truth" means exaggerating so much that it becomes lying. **Who acts:** Stretching, truth · **What happens:** stretch, mean, exaggerate, become, lie · **To what, where:** truth, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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: who acts (Stretching, truth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:17 # text = "Stretching the truth" means exaggerating so much that it becomes lying. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 028-stealing-and-lying.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 exaggerating exaggerate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch** *in a quote* | gerund | | the truth | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Stretching | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **exaggerate** *not said to happen* | gerund | Stretching *not said here* | much | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | present | truth | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | truth *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/16/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/)