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title: If a grown-up asks you to fib to save money, you can gently say the… — Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: If a grown-up asks you to fib to save money, you can gently say the truth, like "Dad, I'm 12 though", without being rude. Who acts: grown up, you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly, sentence 4

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If a grown-up asks you to fib to save money, you can gently say the truth, like "Dad, I'm 12 though", without being rude.

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**Who acts:** grown up, you, I · **What happens:** grow, ask, fib, save, say, be · **To what, where:** you, money, truth, 12 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» 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 (grown up, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.lesson:4
# text = If a grown-up asks you to fib to save money, you can gently say the truth, like "Dad, I'm 12 though", without being rude.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fib	fib	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	though	though	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
33	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a grown up |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fib** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a grown up *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | a grown up *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | the truth |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | 12 |  |  |  | though *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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