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title: Her mum said, «If people make you doubt yourself, trust what you kno… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mum said, «If people make you doubt yourself, trust what you know, and write things down.» Noah «lent» his best Pokémon card to a kid who said he'd lost it; later Noah saw him trading it. Who acts: mum, people, you, Noah. A sentence of the lesson «Being lied to and how it feels» of the everyday 
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# Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 16

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Her mum said, «If people make you doubt yourself, trust what you know, and write things down.» Noah «lent» his best Pokémon card to a kid who said he'd lost it; later Noah saw him trading it.

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**Who acts:** mum, people, you, Noah, kid · **What happens:** say, make, doubt, trust, know, write down · **To what, where:** yourself, things, best Pokémon card, kid, card · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being lied to and how it feels» 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 (mum, people, you, Noah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.lesson:16
# text = Her mum said, «If people make you doubt yourself, trust what you know, and write things down.» Noah «lent» his best Pokémon card to a kid who said he'd lost it; later Noah saw him trading it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	doubt	doubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	lent	lend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
30	Pokémon	Pokémon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:MD:VerbForm=Fin
39	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
43	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
44	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	trading	trade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	xcomp	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aisha's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **doubt** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 4 | **trust** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 6 | **write down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 7 | **lend** *in a quote* | past | Noah | Noah's best Pokémon card | a kid |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent card=Theme to kid=Recipient |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **lose** | past · perfect | Noah | card |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 10 | **see** | past | Noah | kid |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **trade** | gerund | kid *not said here* | card |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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