--- title: People sometimes lie about things they are ashamed of, like failing… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics description: People sometimes lie about things they are ashamed of, like failing to stop a habit; saying it kindly can help them be honest. Who acts: People, saying. 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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 (People, saying), 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:46 # text = People sometimes lie about things they are ashamed of, like failing to stop a habit; saying it kindly can help them be honest. # 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): no change 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 3 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 ashamed asham VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 8 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 failing fail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | People | | | | | about things; sometimes *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about thing=Location | | 2 | **asham** | present · passive | | People | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fail** | gerund | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **stop** | to-infinitive | | a habit | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality habit=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | habit | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **help** | can | saying | People | | | | kindly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 7 | **is** | infinitive | People *not said here* | | | | | honest *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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:46`. **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: [Lied to by someone you love, 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/45/) - next →: [Lied to by someone you love, 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/47/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/)