--- title: Now he must invent more lies to cover the first one, and when the tr… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: Now he must invent more lies to cover the first one, and when the truth comes out he is in trouble for the window and for the lie. Who acts: story, truth. 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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 (story, truth), 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:6 # text = Now he must invent more lies to cover the first one, and when the truth comes out he is in trouble for the window and for the lie. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 invent invent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invent** | must | story | more lies | | | now | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Result | | 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* | the first one | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination | | 3 | **come out** | present | the truth | | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | story | | | trouble | | for the window and the lie | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/4/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)