--- title: Lying to parents about where you are scares them, because they need… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: Lying to parents about where you are scares them, because they need to know you are safe; the lie often hurts more than the place you went. Who acts: you, parents, lie. 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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 (you, parents, lie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:14 # text = Lying to parents about where you are scares them, because they need to know you are safe; the lie often hurts more than the place you went. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 scares scare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 23 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** | gerund | | | | | | to parents | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | | scare *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | you | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hurt** | present | the lie | | | | | than the place; often *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **go** | past | you | the place *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=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:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:14`. **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, R7-rel-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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