--- title: Making an excuse to skip a visit can hurt an old relative who was lo… — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Making an excuse to skip a visit can hurt an old relative who was looking forward to it. Who acts: Making, old relative. A sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/26/) [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/) / [Excuses and the lies that grow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/) / 26 # Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 26 Making an excuse to skip a visit can hurt an old relative who was looking forward to it. **Who acts:** Making, old relative · **What happens:** make, skip, hurt, look · **To what, where:** excuse, visit, old relative, relative This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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 (Making, old relative), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:26 # text = Making an excuse to skip a visit can hurt an old relative who was looking forward to it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.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 Making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 skip skip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 forward forward ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | a excuse | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product | | 2 | **skip** | to-infinitive | | a visit | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Agent | | 3 | **hurt** | can | Making | a old relative | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer relative=Patient | | 4 | **look** | past · progressive | a old relative | | relative | | | forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:26`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/25/) - next →: [Sweets, change and a friend's toy, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/)