--- title: "Telling porkies", "economical with the truth" and "bending the trut… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Telling porkies", "economical with the truth" and "bending the truth" mean lying; "pulling your leg" means fooling you as a friendly joke. Who acts: pulling leg. 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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 (pulling leg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:14 # text = "Telling porkies", "economical with the truth" and "bending the truth" mean lying; "pulling your leg" means fooling you as a friendly joke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 nsubj _ _ 3 porkies porky NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 economical economical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 ccomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 fooling fool VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | | porkies | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Recipient | | 2 | **bend** *in a quote* | gerund | | the truth | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent truth=Material | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pull** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | your pulling leg | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **fool** *not said to happen* | gerund | your pulling leg *not said here* | you | | | | as a friendly joke | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:14`. **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. **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: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/13/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)