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title: Some phrases hide the truth completely: a person who "misremembered"… — Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Some phrases hide the truth completely: a person who "misremembered" may simply have said something false. Who acts: phrases, person. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 3

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Some phrases hide the truth completely: a person who "misremembered" may simply have said something false.

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**Who acts:** phrases, person · **What happens:** hide, misremember, say · **To what, where:** truth, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» 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 (phrases, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:034-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:3
# text = Some phrases hide the truth completely: a person who "misremembered" may simply have said something false.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 034-failure-and-mistakes.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 ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	misremembered	misremember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | some phrases | the truth |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient |
| 2 | **misremember** *in a quote* | past | a person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · perfect | a person | something |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |

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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:034-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:3`.

**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 ×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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