--- title: Lying for a friend often gets you into the same trouble, the friend… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics description: Lying for a friend often gets you into the same trouble, the friend may not even thank you, and the friend learns nothing. Who acts: Lying, friend. 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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 (Lying, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:28 # text = Lying for a friend often gets you into the same trouble, the friend may not even thank you, and the friend learns nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 436-covering-for-a-friend.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 ×2 1 Lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 25 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | for a friend | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | Lying | you | | the same trouble and the friend | | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | may | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | present | the friend | nothing | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | 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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:28`. **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 ×2. **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: [Covering for a friend, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/25/) - next →: [Covering for a friend, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/)