--- title: Some lies are told long ago to protect a child; finding out can stil… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics description: Some lies are told long ago to protect a child; finding out can still be upsetting, and talking about it helps. Who acts: finding, talking. 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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 (finding, talking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.lesson:40 # text = Some lies are told long ago to protect a child; finding out can still be upsetting, and talking about it helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 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 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 ago ago ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 upsetting upsetting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | some lies | | | | ago *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | | | a child | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | | 3 | **find out** | gerund | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | can | finding | | | | still | upsetting *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about lie | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 6 | **help** | present | talking | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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: [Being lied to and how it feels, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/39/) - next →: [Being lied to and how it feels, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/41/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/)