--- title: Lying to protect a friend who did wrong usually lets someone else ta… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: Lying to protect a friend who did wrong usually lets someone else take the blame and stops the friend from putting things right. Who acts: Lying, someone, friend. 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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 (Lying, someone, friend), 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:8 # text = Lying to protect a friend who did wrong usually lets someone else take the blame and stops the friend from putting things right. # 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): no change 1 Lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 else else ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 from from SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 right right ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | | | a friend | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary | | 3 | **let** | present | Lying | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | the blame | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | present | Lying *not said here* | the friend | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friend=Eventuality | | 6 | **put** | gerund | the friend *not said here* | things | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/7/) - next →: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/)