--- title: People sometimes lie for reasons that feel good at the moment: to pr… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics description: People sometimes lie for reasons that feel good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of something. Who acts: People, reasons. 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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 (People, reasons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:0 # text = People sometimes lie for reasons that feel good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of something. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 embarrassment embarrassment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | People | | | | | for reasons; sometimes *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | present | reasons | | | | moment | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | | a friend | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary | | 4 | **hide** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | embarrassment | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embarrassment=Patient | | 5 | **get out** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | something | | | | | tree rules | 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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Money in town and staying safe in crowds, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/22/) - next →: [Covering up, false alarms and playing…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/)