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title: Families where telling the truth is safe tend to have fewer lies. — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics
description: Families where telling the truth is safe tend to have fewer lies. Who acts: telling, Families. A sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trusting again, sentence 39

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Families where telling the truth is safe tend to have fewer lies.

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**Who acts:** telling, Families · **What happens:** tell, be, tend, have · **To what, where:** truth, fewer lies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (telling, Families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:39
# text = Families where telling the truth is safe tend to have fewer lies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 455-trusting-again.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	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
3	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | telling |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tend** | present | Families |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | Families *not said here* | fewer lies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Patient |

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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.

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**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:455-trusting-again.lesson:39`.

**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/).

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