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title: "She can't come to the phone right now" is true and polite: the same… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics
description: "She can't come to the phone right now" is true and polite: the same goal reached honestly. Who acts: vicar. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 10

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"She can't come to the phone right now" is true and polite: the same goal reached honestly.

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**Who acts:** vicar · **What happens:** not come, be, reach · **To what, where:** phone, same goal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (vicar), 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:10
# text = "She can't come to the phone right now" is true and polite: the same goal reached honestly.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
21	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can | vicar |  |  | the phone | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | participle · passive |  | the same goal |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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