--- title: Boasting lies are told to look cool, and they usually cost the very… — The friend with a PS6 · tree and pragmatics description: Boasting lies are told to look cool, and they usually cost the very thing they were meant to win: people's respect. 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 e --- [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-ps6/4/) [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/) / 4 # The friend with a PS6, sentence 4 Boasting lies are told to look cool, and they usually cost the very thing they were meant to win: people's respect. **Who acts:** Boasting lies, lies, people · **What happens:** boast, tell, look, cost, mean, win · **To what, where:** Boasting lies, very thing, lies · **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:4 # text = Boasting lies are told to look cool, and they usually cost the very thing they were meant to win: people's respect. # 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): R7-rel-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 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 usually usually ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **cost** | present | lies *= lie* | the very thing | | | | usually *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thing=Value | | 5 | **mean** | past · passive | | lies *= lie* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **respect** | | people | | | | | | nom respect «cognition transitive»: 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/3/) - next →: [The friend with a PS6, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/)