--- title: Lying to get something you want is still lying, even if the thing se… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: Lying to get something you want is still lying, even if the thing seems small. Who acts: you, Lying, thing. 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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 13 Lying to get something you want is still lying, even if the thing seems small. **Who acts:** you, Lying, thing · **What happens:** lie, get, want, seem · **To what, where:** something 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 (you, Lying, thing), 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:13 # text = Lying to get something you want is still lying, even if the thing seems small. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:cop 8 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | | something | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 3 | **want** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **lie** | present · progressive | Lying | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the thing | | | | | small *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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:13`. **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/). - ← previous: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/12/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)