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title: False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics
description: False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people to be believed later. Who acts: False alarms. A sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 12

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False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people to be believed later.

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**Who acts:** False alarms · **What happens:** pretend, hurt, make, believe · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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 (False alarms), 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:12
# text = False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people to be believed later.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	alarms	alarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | False alarms |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **believe** | to-infinitive · passive |  | people |  |  |  | late *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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**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:12`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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