--- title: "Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue lasts only a mome… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: "Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment" (Proverbs 12:19); if the truth is harmless, tell it. Who acts: Truthful lips, lying tongue, truth. 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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 (Truthful lips, lying tongue, truth), 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:14 # text = "Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment" (Proverbs 12:19); if the truth is harmless, tell it. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Truthful truthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 endure endure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Proverbs Proverbs PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 12:19 12:19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **endure** *in a quote* | present | Truthful lips | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **last** *in a quote* | present | a lying tongue | | | | moment | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the truth | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | truth | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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