--- title: The wish to fool someone is what makes it a lie. — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: The wish to fool someone is what makes it a lie. 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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 1 The wish to fool someone is what makes it a lie. **What happens:** fool, make · **To what, where:** someone, wish 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: 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:1 # text = The wish to fool someone is what makes it a lie. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:xcomp 12 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fool** | to-infinitive | | someone | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | | wish | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product | 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: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): R5-strong ×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: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/0/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)