--- title: Not knowing can be scarier than knowing; it is okay to say «I know s… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics description: Not knowing can be scarier than knowing; it is okay to say «I know something's going on. Who acts: knowing, I, something. A sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» 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/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/42/) [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/) / [Lied to by someone you love](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/) / 42 # Lied to by someone you love, sentence 42 Not knowing can be scarier than knowing; it is okay to say «I know something's going on. **Who acts:** knowing, I, something · **What happens:** not know, be, know, say, go on · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» 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 (knowing, I, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:42 # text = Not knowing can be scarier than knowing; it is okay to say «I know something's going on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 scarier scary ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 parataxis _ _ 6 than than SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 csubj _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis 17 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 18 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 ccomp _ _ 20 on on ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | can | knowing | | | | | scary *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | gerund | knowing *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **go on** *in a quote* | present · progressive | something | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:42`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lied to by someone you love, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/41/) - next →: [Lied to by someone you love, 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/43/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/)