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title: Covering up for someone can let the harm continue and drags you into… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Covering up for someone can let the harm continue and drags you into the trouble too. Who acts: Covering, harm. 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 every
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# Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 9

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Covering up for someone can let the harm continue and drags you into the trouble too.

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**Who acts:** Covering, harm · **What happens:** cover up, let, continue, drag · **To what, where:** harm, you, trouble

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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 (Covering, harm), 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:9
# text = Covering up for someone can let the harm continue and drags you into the trouble too.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	drags	drag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for someone | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | can | Covering | the harm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **continue** | infinitive | the harm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:9`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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