--- title: «We'll see» often means a soft no; it is okay to ask for a clear ans… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics description: «We'll see» often means a soft no; it is okay to ask for a clear answer. Who acts: We. 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/51/) [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/) / 51 # Lied to by someone you love, sentence 51 «We'll see» often means a soft no; it is okay to ask for a clear answer. **Who acts:** We · **What happens:** see, mean, be, ask · **To what, where:** soft no · **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 (We), 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:51 # text = «We'll see» often means a soft no; it is okay to ask for a clear answer. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 no no NOUN NN _ 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 . . 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 | **see** *in a quote* | future | We | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **mean** | present | | a soft no | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | for a clear answer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:51`. **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 ×4. **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, 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/50/) - next →: [Lied to by someone you love, 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/52/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/)