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title: Lying to a doctor about how you got hurt, or prank calling an emerge… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lying to a doctor about how you got hurt, or prank calling an emergency number, can stop real help from reaching the person who needs it. Who acts: Lying, person. A sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» of the everyday course of Mov
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# Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 4

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Lying to a doctor about how you got hurt, or prank calling an emergency number, can stop real help from reaching the person who needs it.

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**Who acts:** Lying, person · **What happens:** lie, hurt, call, stop, reach, need · **To what, where:** you, emergency number, real help, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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 (Lying, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:4
# text = Lying to a doctor about how you got hurt, or prank calling an emergency number, can stop real help from reaching the person who needs it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a doctor | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | gerund |  | a emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 4 | **stop** | can | Lying | real help |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality help=Eventuality |
| 5 | **reach** | gerund | Lying *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 6 | **need** | present | the person | person |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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**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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