--- title: Watch out for half-lies: vague words meant to mislead, or "just joki… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: Watch out for half-lies: vague words meant to mislead, or "just joking" after a hurtful lie, are not honest, even if every word sounds clever. Who acts: you, vague words, word. 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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, vague words, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:4 # text = Watch out for half-lies: vague words meant to mislead, or "just joking" after a hurtful lie, are not honest, even if every word sounds clever. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.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 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 vague vague ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 10 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 mislead mislead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 hurtful hurtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **watch out** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for half lies | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for lie=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | past | vague words *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mislead** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | vague words *not said here* | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | vague words *not said here* | | | | after a hurtful lie | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | vague words | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | every word | | | | | clever *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:religion-ethics:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:4`. **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. 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