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title: Pretend play is not lying when everyone is in on the game, but cover… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretend play is not lying when everyone is in on the game, but cover stories, show-off fibs and "I'm fine" when you're not can quietly grow into a habit. Who acts: Pretend play, everyone, I, cover stories. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» of the religion 
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# Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 0

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Pretend play is not lying when everyone is in on the game, but cover stories, show-off fibs and "I'm fine" when you're not can quietly grow into a habit.

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**Who acts:** Pretend play, everyone, I, cover stories · **What happens:** not lie, be, not be · **To what, where:** game, habit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pretend play, everyone, I, cover stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:0
# text = Pretend play is not lying when everyone is in on the game, but cover stories, show-off fibs and "I'm fine" when you're not can quietly grow into a habit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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
1	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
15	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
18	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
20	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	fibs	fib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lie** | present · progressive | Pretend play |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | everyone |  |  | the game |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | can · present | cover stories and show off fibs |  |  | a habit |  | grow, quietly *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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): R6-punct-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/).

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