--- title: Lying that someone has died or is ill, to get out of things, is crue… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics description: Lying that someone has died or is ill, to get out of things, is cruel to the people who believe you. Who acts: someone, people. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/26/) [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/) / [When the story falls apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/) / 26 # When the story falls apart, sentence 26 Lying that someone has died or is ill, to get out of things, is cruel to the people who believe you. **Who acts:** someone, people · **What happens:** lie, die, be, get out, believe · **To what, where:** things, you This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (someone, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:26 # text = Lying that someone has died or is ill, to get out of things, is cruel to the people who believe you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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 Lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 ccomp _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | present · perfect | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | present | someone *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get out** | to-infinitive | | things | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | someone *not said here* | | | | | to the people; cruel *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **believe** | present | the people | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:26`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When the story falls apart, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/25/) - next →: [When the story falls apart, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/)