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title: Other lies are dangerous because the people who keep you safe need t… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Other lies are dangerous because the people who keep you safe need the truth: doctors and nurses, parents who need to know where you are, and emergency services. Who acts: Other lies, people, parents, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 2

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Other lies are dangerous because the people who keep you safe need the truth: doctors and nurses, parents who need to know where you are, and emergency services.

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**Who acts:** Other lies, people, parents, you · **What happens:** be, keep, need, know · **To what, where:** you, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Other lies, people, parents, you), 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:2
# text = Other lies are dangerous because the people who keep you safe need the truth: doctors and nurses, parents who need to know where you are, and emergency services.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	ccomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Other lies |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the people | you |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | the people | the truth and doctors and nurses and parents and emergency services |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot truth=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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