--- title: Loyalty to a friend does not mean lying for them; covering up can le… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: Loyalty to a friend does not mean lying for them; covering up can let harm go on and drags you into the trouble. Who acts: Loyalty, covering, harm. 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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 (Loyalty, covering, harm), 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:15 # text = Loyalty to a friend does not mean lying for them; covering up can let harm go on and drags you into the trouble. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Loyalty loyalty NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 covering cover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 16 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 on on ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 20 drags drag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Loyalty to a friend | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **lie** *not said to happen* | gerund | Loyalty to a friend *not said here* | | | | | for People | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cover up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **let** | can | covering | harm | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go on** | infinitive | harm *not said here* | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **drag** | present | covering *not said here* | you | | the trouble | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/13/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)