--- title: Buying time with lies («I'll bring the note tomorrow») makes the tro… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: Buying time with lies («I'll bring the note tomorrow») makes the trouble bigger every day. Who acts: truth, Buying. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/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/) / [Lies that grow: one lie needs three more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/) / 33 # Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 33 Buying time with lies («I'll bring the note tomorrow») makes the trouble bigger every day. **Who acts:** truth, Buying · **What happens:** buy, bring, make · **To what, where:** note, trouble This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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 (truth, Buying), 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:33 # text = Buying time with lies («I'll bring the note tomorrow») makes the trouble bigger every day. # 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): no change 1 Buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | gerund | | | | | time | with lies | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | the truth *= truth* | the note | | | tomorrow | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent note=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | Buying | the trouble | | | | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=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:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.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): 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. 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