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title: Parents can help with a bad mark; they cannot help with a faked good… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents can help with a bad mark; they cannot help with a faked good one. Who acts: Parents, claims. 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.
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# Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 36

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Parents can help with a bad mark; they cannot help with a faked good one.

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**Who acts:** Parents, claims · **What happens:** help, not help, fake

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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 (Parents, claims), 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:36
# text = Parents can help with a bad mark; they cannot help with a faked good one.
# 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	faked	fake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | can | Parents |  |  |  |  | with a bad mark | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mark=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **help** | can | claims *= claim* |  |  |  |  | with a faked good one | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme |
| 3 | **fake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.lesson:36`.

**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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