--- title: Saying "I'm about to" just to get someone off your back misleads the… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: Saying "I'm about to" just to get someone off your back misleads them; James warns against confident talk about plans (James 4:13-15). Who acts: I, Saying, James. 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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 (I, Saying, James), 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:8 # text = Saying "I'm about to" just to get someone off your back misleads them; James warns against confident talk about plans (James 4:13-15). # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 off off ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 misleads mislead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 warns warn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 20 against against ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 confident confident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 27 4:13-15 4:13-15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 flat _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | | someone | | | | off your back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 4 | **mislead** | present | Saying | clouds *= cloud* | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | James | | | | | against confident talk about plans | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against talk=Topic | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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