--- title: Scientists at University College London found in 2016 that when peop… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists at University College London found in 2016 that when people told small self-serving lies again and again, the brain's alarm centre reacted less each time, and the lies grew bigger. Who acts: Scientists, people, alarm centre, lies. 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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 (Scientists, people, alarm centre, lies), 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:2 # text = Scientists at University College London found in 2016 that when people told small self-serving lies again and again, the brain's alarm centre reacted less each time, and the lies grew bigger. # 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, R5-strong ×4 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 University University PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 College College PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 6 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:mark 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:ccomp 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 14 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 reacted react VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 28 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 36 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Scientists at University | | | 2016 | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | people | small serving lies | | | again | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | | 3 | **serve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **react** | past | the brain's alarm centre | | | | time | less *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow** | past | the lies | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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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