--- title: Noses do not grow like Pinocchio's, and looking away does not prove… — Telling when someone may be lying · tree and pragmatics description: Noses do not grow like Pinocchio's, and looking away does not prove anything: shy, nervous or autistic people often avoid eye contact while telling the complete truth. Who acts: Noses, looking, shy people. 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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 (Noses, looking, shy people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.lesson:1 # text = Noses do not grow like Pinocchio's, and looking away does not prove anything: shy, nervous or autistic people often avoid eye contact while telling the complete truth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.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 Noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Pinocchio Pinocchio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 prove prove VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 autistic autistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 25 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **not** **grow** | present · do-support | Noses | | | | | like Pinocchio | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look away** | gerund | | | | | | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | looking | anything | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 4 | **avoid** | present | shy people | eye contact | | | | often *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent contact=Location | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | shy people *not said here* | the complete truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | 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:198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [Telling when someone may be lying, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/0/) - next →: [Telling when someone may be lying, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/)