--- title: Covering for a friend means lying that they were with you; it can hu… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: Covering for a friend means lying that they were with you; it can hurt the people who are fooled, the friend, and you. Who acts: Covering, Christians, promise. 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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 (Covering, Christians, promise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:20 # text = Covering for a friend means lying that they were with you; it can hurt the people who are fooled, the friend, and you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Covering cover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 fooled fool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | gerund | | | | | | for a friend | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Covering | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lie** *not said to happen* | gerund | Covering *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | Christians *= christian* | | | | | with you | tree rules | | 5 | **hurt** | can | promise | the people and the friend | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | | 6 | **fool** | present · passive | | the people and the friend | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:20`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/19/) - next →: [Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/42-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/)