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title: Many lies are told to avoid trouble, but they usually lead to more t… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics
description: Many lies are told to avoid trouble, but they usually lead to more trouble when found out. Who acts: Many lies, People. 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.
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# Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 25

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Many lies are told to avoid trouble, but they usually lead to more trouble when found out.

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**Who acts:** Many lies, People · **What happens:** tell, avoid, lead, find out · **To what, where:** Many lies, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many lies, 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:25
# text = Many lies are told to avoid trouble, but they usually lead to more trouble when found out.
# 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
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Many lies |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **avoid** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Many lies *not said here* | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location |
| 3 | **lead** | present | People |  |  |  |  | to more trouble; usually *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to trouble=Patient |
| 4 | **find out** | participle | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:25`.

**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. **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/).

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