--- title: People usually lie for a reason that feels good at the moment: to pr… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · tree and pragmatics description: People usually lie for a reason that feels good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of something. Who acts: People, reason. 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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, reason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:0 # text = People usually lie for a reason that feels good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of something. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually 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 _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 embarrassment embarrassment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 26 out out ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | People | | | | | for a reason; usually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | present | a reason | | | | 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* | | | | | of something; out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of something=Source | 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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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): 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: [Good manners and safety in town: shops…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/21/) - next →: [Why people lie, harmful lies and cheat…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/)