--- title: Kind lies, like «the dog went to a farm», may protect for a while, b… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Kind lies, like «the dog went to a farm», may protect for a while, but most people later prefer the truth told gently. Who acts: dog, Kind lies, most people. 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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 (dog, Kind lies, most people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:40 # text = Kind lies, like «the dog went to a farm», may protect for a while, but most people later prefer the truth told gently. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-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): no change 1 Kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 like like SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 acl _ _ 28 gently gently ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . 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 | **go** *in a quote* | past | the dog | Kind lies *not said here* | | | | to a farm | tree rules | | 2 | **protect** | may | Kind lies | | | | while | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **prefer** | present | most people | the truth | | | | late *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | the truth *not said here* | | | | gently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:40`. **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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