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title: When someone will act on your answer, a false «it's perfect» can lea… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone will act on your answer, a false «it's perfect» can lead them into embarrassment later. Who acts: someone, encouragement, false perfect, your. A sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# White lies and kind silence, sentence 13

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When someone will act on your answer, a false «it's perfect» can lead them into embarrassment later.

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**Who acts:** someone, encouragement, false perfect, your · **What happens:** act, be, lead, answer · **To what, where:** answer, people, embarrassment

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This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» 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 (someone, encouragement, false perfect, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:13
# text = When someone will act on your answer, a false «it's perfect» can lead them into embarrassment later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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	When	when	ADV	WRB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **act** | future | someone |  |  | your answer |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on answer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | encouragement |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | can | a false perfect | people |  | embarrassment |  | late *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into embarrassment=Destination |
| 4 | **answer** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:13`.

**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/).

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