--- title: A lie is saying something you know is false in order to make someone… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: A lie is saying something you know is false in order to make someone believe it. Who acts: lie, you, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Why people lie, and what is not a lie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/) / 0 # Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 0 A lie is saying something you know is false in order to make someone believe it. **Who acts:** lie, you, someone · **What happens:** say, know, be, make, believe · **To what, where:** something, someone, lie · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» of the everyday 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 (lie, you, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:195-why-people-lie.lesson:0 # text = A lie is saying something you know is false in order to make someone believe it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 195-why-people-lie.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:ExtPos=SCONJ 11 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 fixed _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 · progressive | a lie | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 2 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | false *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | a lie *not said here* | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **believe** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | lie | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:everyday:195-why-people-lie.lesson:0`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Birthday parties, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/19/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)