--- title: A white lie is a small lie told to be kind or polite; people disagre… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: A white lie is a small lie told to be kind or polite; people disagree about whether white lies are all right. Who acts: white lie, small lie, people, white lies. A sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/40/) [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/) / [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/) / 40 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 40 A white lie is a small lie told to be kind or polite; people disagree about whether white lies are all right. **Who acts:** white lie, small lie, people, white lies · **What happens:** be, tell, disagree · **To what, where:** small lie · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 (white lie, small lie, people, white lies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:40 # text = A white lie is a small lie told to be kind or polite; people disagree about whether white lies are all right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 about about SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 24 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a white lie | a small lie | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | a small lie *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a small lie *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | a small lie *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | white lies | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | 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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:40`. **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): R8-pos-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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