--- title: Some lies are dangerous: pretending to be hurt, lying to a doctor, o… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics description: Some lies are dangerous: pretending to be hurt, lying to a doctor, or making a fake emergency call. Who acts: lies. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 4 Some lies are dangerous: pretending to be hurt, lying to a doctor, or making a fake emergency call. **Who acts:** lies · **What happens:** be, pretend, hurt, lie, make · **To what, where:** fake emergency call 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 (lies), 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:4 # text = Some lies are dangerous: pretending to be hurt, lying to a doctor, or making a fake emergency call. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some lies | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pretend** | gerund | some lies *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | to-infinitive · passive | some lies *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | some lies *not said here* | | | | | to a doctor | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | gerund | some lies *not said here* | a fake emergency call | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset call=Product | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/3/) - next →: [Covering up, false alarms and playing…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/)