--- title: Giving a false alibi about where someone was can put them in danger… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics description: Giving a false alibi about where someone was can put them in danger if something goes wrong. Who acts: someone, Giving, something. A sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/29/) [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/) / [Covering for a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/) / 29 # Covering for a friend, sentence 29 Giving a false alibi about where someone was can put them in danger if something goes wrong. **Who acts:** someone, Giving, something · **What happens:** give, be, put, go · **To what, where:** false alibi, means, danger This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (someone, Giving, something), 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:29 # text = Giving a false alibi about where someone was can put them in danger if something goes wrong. # 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): no change 1 Giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 alibi alibi NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 about about SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ _ 16 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | | a false alibi | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alibi=Theme | | 2 | **be** | past | someone | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **put** | can | Giving | means | | danger | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in danger=Destination | | 4 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | | | | | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:29`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Covering for a friend, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/28/) - next →: [Covering for a friend, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/)