--- title: Doctors and emergency services can only help when they get the truth… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · tree and pragmatics description: Doctors and emergency services can only help when they get the truth, and a prank call to an emergency number can delay help for someone who is really in danger. Who acts: Doctors, prank call. 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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 (Doctors, prank call), 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:6 # text = Doctors and emergency services can only help when they get the truth, and a prank call to an emergency number can delay help for someone who is really in danger. # 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 Doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 delay delay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 24 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obl _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 really really ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **help** | can | Doctors and emergency services | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | Doctors *= doctor* | the truth | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | | 3 | **delay** | can | a prank call to a emergency number | help | | | | for someone | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent help=Source | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | danger | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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. 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