--- title: Avoiding eye contact does not prove a lie; shy, nervous or autistic… — Telling when someone may be lying · tree and pragmatics description: Avoiding eye contact does not prove a lie; shy, nervous or autistic people may do it while telling the truth. Who acts: Avoiding, 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 (Avoiding, 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:10 # text = Avoiding eye contact does not prove a lie; shy, nervous or autistic people may do it while telling the 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Avoiding avoid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 autistic autistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | gerund | | eye contact | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent contact=Location | | 2 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | Avoiding | a lie | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme | | 3 | **do** | may | shy people | lie | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | shy people *not said here* | the 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: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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Telling when someone may be lying, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/9/) - next →: [Telling when someone may be lying, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/)