--- title: The moment you notice you are inventing a second lie is the best mom… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: The moment you notice you are inventing a second lie is the best moment to stop: «Nah, I made that up.» The way out of a hole is to stop digging. Who acts: you, moment, teacher. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, moment, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.lesson:27 # text = The moment you notice you are inventing a second lie is the best moment to stop: «Nah, I made that up.» The way out of a hole is to stop digging. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 inventing invent VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 19 Nah Nah INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 27 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 29 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 36 digging dig VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **notice** | present | you | the moment *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **invent** | present · progressive | you | a second lie | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Result | | 3 | **is a** | present | the moment | the best moment | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **make up** *in a quote* | past | the teacher *= teacher* | that | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Pivot | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | the way out a hole *obl*; stop *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **dig** | gerund | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.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. **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. 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