--- title: Stories, plays, films and games of pretend are shared make-believe,… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: Stories, plays, films and games of pretend are shared make-believe, not lies, because everyone knows they are not real. Who acts: everyone, tales. 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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 (everyone, tales), 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:18 # text = Stories, plays, films and games of pretend are shared make-believe, not lies, because everyone knows they are not real. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 plays play NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 pretend pretend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 make make NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 14 believe believe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 21 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | present · passive | | Stories and plays and films and games of pretend | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | tales *= tale* | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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 ×2, 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: [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/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)