--- title: An embarrassing truth is often funny rather than hurtful, like "the… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: An embarrassing truth is often funny rather than hurtful, like "the dog got the pasty before me!" Who acts: embarrassing truth, dog. 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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 (embarrassing truth, dog), 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:13 # text = An embarrassing truth is often funny rather than hurtful, like "the dog got the pasty before me!" # 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): no change 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 9 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 hurtful hurtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pasty pasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a embarrassing truth | | | | | funny, often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a embarrassing truth *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | the dog | the pasty | | | before the vicar *= vicar* | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pasty=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. 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