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title: False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · 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 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 13

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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 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:13
# text = False alarms, like pretending to be hurt, make it harder for people to be believed later.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, 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	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:13`.

**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, 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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