--- title: Lies are easy to check (a dry toothbrush, a teacher asking about cha… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Lies are easy to check (a dry toothbrush, a teacher asking about chapter five, a boy looking it up), and once you are caught in a small lie, people stop trusting your big truths too. Who acts: Lies, dry toothbrush, boy, people. 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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 (Lies, dry toothbrush, boy, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:13 # text = Lies are easy to check (a dry toothbrush, a teacher asking about chapter five, a boy looking it up), and once you are caught in a small lie, people stop trusting your big truths too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 336-little-lies-at-home.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 1 Lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 toothbrush toothbrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 chapter chapter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 flat _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 once once SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 trusting trust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 truths truth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Lies | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | | a dry toothbrush and a teacher | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothbrush=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a dry toothbrush and a teacher *not said here* | | | | | about chapter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about chapter=Topic | | 4 | **look up** | gerund | a boy | chapter | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 5 | **catch** | present · passive | | you | | a small lie | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | present | people | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **trust** | gerund | people *not said here* | your big truths | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | 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:336-little-lies-at-home.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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Little lies at home, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/12/) - next →: [Little lies at home, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/)