--- title: Some of these words are kind or just funny, like "pulling your leg",… — Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty an… · tree and pragmatics description: Some of these words are kind or just funny, like "pulling your leg", but many hide a real lie or a real problem. Who acts: Some, many. 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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 (Some, many), 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:4 # text = Some of these words are kind or just funny, like "pulling your leg", but many hide a real lie or a real problem. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind 20 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Some | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Some *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pull** *in a quote* | gerund | Some *not said here* | your leg | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 4 | **hide** | present | many | a real lie or a real problem | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=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:4`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: lying and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/)