--- title: Pretending to be hurt to get attention is a false alarm, and false a… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics description: Pretending to be hurt to get attention is a false alarm, and false alarms make it harder to be believed later. Who acts: Pretending, false alarms. 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 scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Saying no honestly, harmful lies, chea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/) / 9 # Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 9 Pretending to be hurt to get attention is a false alarm, and false alarms make it harder to be believed later. **Who acts:** Pretending, false alarms · **What happens:** pretend, hurt, get, be, make, believe · **To what, where:** attention, false alarm 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 (Pretending, false alarms), 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:9 # text = Pretending to be hurt to get attention is a false alarm, and false alarms make it harder to be believed later. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 2 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 7 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 alarms alarm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 believed believe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 22 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **get** | to-infinitive | | attention | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | Pretending | a false alarm | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | false alarms | | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **believe** | to-infinitive · passive | false alarms *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | 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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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