--- title: Officials say a claim was "not entirely accurate" instead of "false"… — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics description: Officials say a claim was "not entirely accurate" instead of "false"; businesses "massage the numbers" instead of faking them. Who acts: Officials, claim, businesses. 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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 (Officials, claim, businesses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:1 # text = Officials say a claim was "not entirely accurate" instead of "false"; businesses "massage the numbers" instead of faking them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 029-lying-and-drinking.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 accurate accurate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 11 instead instead ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 massage massage VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 instead instead ADV RB _ 25 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod 24 of of SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 faking fake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 advcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Officials | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | a claim | | | | | of false; accurate, entirely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **massage** *in a quote* | present | businesses | the numbers | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Experiencer | | 4 | **fake** | gerund | businesses *not said here* | numbers *= number* | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:euphemisms:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, 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: lying and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/)