--- title: Small lies are easy to check, and each one caught makes it harder fo… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Small lies are easy to check, and each one caught makes it harder for people to believe you. Who acts: Small lies, one, people. A sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/15/) [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/) / [Little lies at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/) / 15 # Little lies at home, sentence 15 Small lies are easy to check, and each one caught makes it harder for people to believe you. **Who acts:** Small lies, one, people · **What happens:** be, check, catch, make, believe · **To what, where:** one, thing, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» 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 (Small lies, one, 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:15 # text = Small lies are easy to check, and each one caught makes it harder for people to believe you. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 14 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:ccomp 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:iobj 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is** | present | Small lies | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | Small lies *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **catch** | participle | | each one *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | each one | thing | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **believe** | to-infinitive | people | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/14/) - next →: [Little lies at home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/)