--- title: Understanding the reason does not make the lie right, but it helps y… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: Understanding the reason does not make the lie right, but it helps you be fair and helps you choose the truth yourself. Who acts: Understanding, trouble, you. 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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 (Understanding, trouble, you), 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:3 # text = Understanding the reason does not make the lie right, but it helps you be fair and helps you choose the truth yourself. # 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 ×3 1 Understanding understanding VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 18 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **understanding** | gerund | | the reason | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Understanding | the lie | | | | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lie=Product | | 3 | **help** | present | trouble | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | trouble *not said here* | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | present | trouble *not said here* | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **choose** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the truth | | | | yourself *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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:3`. **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 ×3. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/2/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)