--- title: Most are not lies meant to trick you: they show pride, love, or the… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics description: Most are not lies meant to trick you: they show pride, love, or the wish to sound interesting to a new friend. Who acts: Most, boasts. A sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/2/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [My dad could lift a car: playground bo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/) / 2 # My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 2 Most are not lies meant to trick you: they show pride, love, or the wish to sound interesting to a new friend. **Who acts:** Most, boasts · **What happens:** not be, mean, trick, show, sound · **To what, where:** lies, you, pride This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language 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 (Most, boasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:2 # text = Most are not lies meant to trick you: they show pride, love, or the wish to sound interesting to a new friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 trick trick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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** **is a** | present | Most | lies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | participle | | lies *not said here* | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **trick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 4 | **show** | present | boasts *= boast* | pride and love | | | | the wish *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pride=Recipient | | 5 | **sound** | to-infinitive | boasts *= boast* *not said here* | | | | | interesting *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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