--- title: Telling the police the truth calmly is always the best choice; lying… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics description: Telling the police the truth calmly is always the best choice; lying makes things much worse. Who acts: Telling. A sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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/384-when-the-police-come/33/) [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/) / [When the police come](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/) / 33 # When the police come, sentence 33 Telling the police the truth calmly is always the best choice; lying makes things much worse. **Who acts:** Telling · **What happens:** tell, be, lie, make · **To what, where:** truth, police, best choice, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (Telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:33 # text = Telling the police the truth calmly is always the best choice; lying makes things much worse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 384-when-the-police-come.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 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 iobj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 nsubj _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | the truth | the police | | | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent police=Recipient truth=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | Telling | the best choice | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | | things | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | 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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:33`. **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: [When the police come, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/32/) - next →: [When the police come, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/)