--- title: Dodging a question isn't the same as lying — but it can hide things. — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: Dodging a question isn't the same as lying — but it can hide things. Who acts: Dodging, question. A sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» 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/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/13/) [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/) / [Politicians and promises, as the news…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/) / 13 # Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 13 Dodging a question isn't the same as lying — but it can hide things. **Who acts:** Dodging, question · **What happens:** dodge, not be, lie, hide · **To what, where:** question, things This is a sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» 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 (Dodging, question), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:13 # text = Dodging a question isn't the same as lying — but it can hide things. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.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 Dodging dodge VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 — - PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dodge** | gerund | | a question | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent question=Location | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Dodging | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | Dodging *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hide** | can | question | things | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | 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:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:13`. **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. 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