--- title: A white lie is a small lie told to be nice, like saying "I love it!"… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: A white lie is a small lie told to be nice, like saying "I love it!" about a present you secretly think is awful. Who acts: white lie, small lie, I, you. 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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 (white lie, small lie, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:0 # text = A white lie is a small lie told to be nice, like saying "I love it!" about a present you secretly think is awful. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a white lie | a small lie | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | a small lie *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a small lie *not said here* | | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | about a present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | present | I | lie | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you | a present *not said here* | | | | secretly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot present=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | | awful *property* | tree rules | 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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/82-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend/20/) - next →: [White lies: the ugly jumper and the ba…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/83-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing/)