--- title: Being loyal to a friend means being kind to them, not lying to cover… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics description: Being loyal to a friend means being kind to them, not lying to cover harm they did. Who acts: loyal, reasons. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/2/) [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/) / [Covering up, false alarms and playing…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/) / 2 # Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 2 Being loyal to a friend means being kind to them, not lying to cover harm they did. **Who acts:** loyal, reasons · **What happens:** be, mean, not lie, cover, do · **To what, where:** reasons, harm · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (loyal, 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:2 # text = Being loyal to a friend means being kind to them, not lying to cover harm they did. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 16 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 . . 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 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to a friend; loyal *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | loyal | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | reasons *= reason* | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **lie** | gerund | loyal *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cover** | to-infinitive | loyal *not said here* | harm | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harm=Destination | | 6 | **do** | past | reasons *= reason* | harm *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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. **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: [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/) - next →: [Covering up, false alarms and playing…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/)