--- title: People lie for understandable reasons: to escape trouble, to be admi… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: People lie for understandable reasons: to escape trouble, to be admired, to get something they want, or to cover for a friend. Who acts: People. 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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 (People), 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:2 # text = People lie for understandable reasons: to escape trouble, to be admired, to get something they want, or to cover for a friend. # 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): no change 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 understandable understandable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 9 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 admired admire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | People | | | | | for understandable reasons | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | trouble | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trouble=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **admire** | to-infinitive · passive | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | something | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 5 | **want** | present | People | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **cover** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | | | | | for a friend | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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:2`. **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): no change. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/1/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)