--- title: People who lie to trick you often rush you, offer something too good… — Telling when someone may be lying · tree and pragmatics description: People who lie to trick you often rush you, offer something too good to be true, or ask you to keep a secret. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «Telling when someone may be lying» 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/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/23/) [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/) / [Telling when someone may be lying](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/) / 23 # Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 23 People who lie to trick you often rush you, offer something too good to be true, or ask you to keep a secret. **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** lie, trick, rush, offer, be, ask · **To what, where:** you, something, secret This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling when someone may be lying» 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 (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:23 # text = People who lie to trick you often rush you, offer something too good to be true, or ask you to keep a secret. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 trick trick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 rush rush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 offer offer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:acl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | People | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **trick** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | you | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 3 | **rush** | present | People | you | | | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent | | 4 | **offer** | present | People *not said here* | something | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | People *not said here* | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | a secret | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | 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:23`. **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 ×1, 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: [Telling when someone may be lying, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/22/) - next →: [Telling when someone may be lying, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/)