--- title: "Strategic misrepresentation" means deliberate lying to win approval… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: "Strategic misrepresentation" means deliberate lying to win approval, for example hiding a project's real cost. Who acts: Strategic misrepresentation, project. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strategic misrepresentation, project), 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:24 # text = "Strategic misrepresentation" means deliberate lying to win approval, for example hiding a project's real cost. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Strategic strategic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 misrepresentation misrepresentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 deliberate deliberate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lying lying NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 10 approval approval NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 14 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Strategic misrepresentation | deliberate lying | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lying=Topic | | 2 | **win** | to-infinitive | Strategic misrepresentation *not said here* | approval | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Eventuality | | 3 | **hide** | gerund | Strategic misrepresentation *not said here* | example | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Patient | | 4 | **cost** | | a project | | | | | | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/)