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title: A small lie to fit in can make you feel more alone, not less. — Left out without a console · tree and pragmatics
description: A small lie to fit in can make you feel more alone, not less. Who acts: small lie, you. A sentence of the lesson «Left out without a console» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Left out without a console, sentence 28

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A small lie to fit in can make you feel more alone, not less.

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**Who acts:** small lie, you · **What happens:** fit in, make, feel · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Left out without a console» 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 lie, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console.lesson:28
# text = A small lie to fit in can make you feel more alone, not less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 399-left-out-without-a-console.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit in** | to-infinitive | a small lie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | can | a small lie | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone, less *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:399-left-out-without-a-console.lesson:28`.

**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/).

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