--- title: Lying to get someone else in trouble is a serious wrong, and if you… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics description: Lying to get someone else in trouble is a serious wrong, and if you did it, telling the truth quickly is the way to fix it. Who acts: Lying, you, telling. 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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 (Lying, you, telling), 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:10 # text = Lying to get someone else in trouble is a serious wrong, and if you did it, telling the truth quickly is the way to fix it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 else else ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 19 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | | someone | | trouble | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | Lying | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | trouble | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | the truth | | | | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | telling | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fix** | to-infinitive | Lying *not said here* | trouble | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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:10`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Lies that do real harm, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/9/) - next →: [Lies that do real harm, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/197-harmful-lies/)