Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 3

Understanding the reason does not make the lie right, but it helps you be fair and helps you choose the truth yourself.

Who acts: Understanding, trouble, you · What happens: understanding, not make, help, be, choose · To what, where: reason, lie, you, truth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» of the everyday 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 (Understanding, trouble, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Understanding	understanding	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Understanding	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lie	det
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helps	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 helps	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 helps	nsubj
13	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 helps	obj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 fair	cop
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 helps	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 helps	cc
18	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 helps	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 helps	obj
20	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 helps	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 truth	det
22	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 choose	obj
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 choose	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	understanding	gerund		the reason			tree rules
2	not make	present · do-support	Understanding	the lie		right property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lie=Product
3	help	present	trouble		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	is	infinitive	trouble not said here			fair property	tree rules
5	help	present	trouble not said here	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	choose	infinitive	you not said here	the truth		yourself obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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, 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:everyday:195-why-people-lie.lesson:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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