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title: People often lie because they feel small; being kind when the lie co… — The friend with a PS6 · tree and pragmatics
description: People often lie because they feel small; being kind when the lie comes out can save the friendship. Who acts: People, lie, kind. 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.
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# The friend with a PS6, sentence 31

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People often lie because they feel small; being kind when the lie comes out can save the friendship.

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**Who acts:** People, lie, kind · **What happens:** lie, feel, be, come out, save · **To what, where:** kind, friendship

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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 (People, lie, kind), 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:31
# text = People often lie because they feel small; being kind when the lie comes out can save the friendship.
# 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
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | People |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | present | people |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | kind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come out** | present | the lie |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **save** | can | kind | the friendship |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Theme |

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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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:31`.

**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/).

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