--- title: Boasting lies are told to look cool or to fit in, and when found out… — The friend with a PS6 · tree and pragmatics description: Boasting lies are told to look cool or to fit in, and when found out they cost people's trust. Who acts: Boasting lies, lies, people. A sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/26/) [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/) / [The friend with a PS6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/) / 26 # The friend with a PS6, sentence 26 Boasting lies are told to look cool or to fit in, and when found out they cost people's trust. **Who acts:** Boasting lies, lies, people · **What happens:** boast, tell, look, fit in, find out, cost · **To what, where:** Boasting lies, trust · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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 (Boasting lies, lies, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:26 # text = Boasting lies are told to look cool or to fit in, and when found out they cost people's trust. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Boasting boast VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 amod _ _ 2 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Boasting lies | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Boasting lies *not said here* | | | | | cool *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **fit in** | to-infinitive | Boasting lies *not said here* | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find out** | participle | lies *= lie* *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cost** | present | lies *= lie* | people's trust | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme trust=Value | | 7 | **trust** | | people | | | | | | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.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, R8-pos-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: [The friend with a PS6, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/23/) - next →: [The friend with a PS6, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/)