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title: Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; covering up can let harm c… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics
description: Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; covering up can let harm continue and drags you into the trouble too. Who acts: Loyalty, covering, harm. 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 pr
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# Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 8

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Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; covering up can let harm continue and drags you into the trouble too.

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**Who acts:** Loyalty, covering, harm · **What happens:** not mean, lie, cover up, let, continue, drag · **To what, where:** you, trouble

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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 (Loyalty, covering, harm), 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:8
# text = Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; covering up can let harm continue and drags you into the trouble too.
# 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 ×3
1	Loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
14	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drags	drag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Loyalty |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** *not said to happen* | gerund | Loyalty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a friend | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cover up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | can | covering |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **continue** | infinitive | harm |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drag** | present | covering *not said here* | you |  | the trouble |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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 ×3. **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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