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title: Getting away with a lie does not always feel like winning; guilt can… — «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting away with a lie does not always feel like winning; guilt can feel worse than being caught. Who acts: Getting, guilt. A sentence of the lesson ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home, sentence 27

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Getting away with a lie does not always feel like winning; guilt can feel worse than being caught.

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**Who acts:** Getting, guilt · **What happens:** get away, not feel, win, feel, catch

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««I did brush my teeth»: 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 (Getting, guilt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home.lesson:27
# text = Getting away with a lie does not always feel like winning; guilt can feel worse than being caught.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **get away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with a lie; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | Getting |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | Getting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | can | guilt |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **catch** | gerund · passive | guilt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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:427-i-did-brush-my-teeth-little-lies-at-home.lesson:27`.

**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, 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/).

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