--- title: Some lies cause real damage to other people or to yourself. — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics description: Some lies cause real damage to other people or to yourself. Who acts: lies. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Lies that do real harm](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/) / 0 # Lies that do real harm, sentence 0 Some lies cause real damage to other people or to yourself. **Who acts:** lies · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** real damage This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» 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 (lies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:0 # text = Some lies cause real damage to other people or to yourself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 197-harmful-lies.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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 conj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **cause** | present | some lies | real damage | | | | to other people | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient | 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:197-harmful-lies.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [White lies and kind silence, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/25/) - next →: [Lies that do real harm, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/)