--- title: Kirsty in Inverness found out her best friend had been laughing abou… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics description: Kirsty in Inverness found out her best friend had been laughing about her in a group chat while being nice to her face. Who acts: Kirsty, best friend. 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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 (Kirsty, best friend), 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:21 # text = Kirsty in Inverness found out her best friend had been laughing about her in a group chat while being nice to her face. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Kirsty Kirsty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Inverness Inverness PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux _ _ 11 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find out** | past | Kirsty in Inverness | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **laugh** | past · perfect · progressive | Kirsty's best friend | Kirsty | | | | about a group chat | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | gerund | Kirsty's best friend *not said here* | | | | | to Kirsty's face; nice *property* | tree rules | 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:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.lesson:21`. **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): R5-strong ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Being lied to and how it feels, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/20/) - next →: [Being lied to and how it feels, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/)