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title: She messaged: «You could've just told me.» — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics
description: She messaged: «You could've just told me.» Who acts: Hannah, You. A sentence of the lesson «Being lied to and how it feels» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 23

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She messaged: «You could've just told me.»

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**Who acts:** Hannah, You · **What happens:** message, tell · **To what, where:** Ella · **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 (Hannah, You), 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:23
# text = She messaged: «You could've just told me.»
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	messaged	message	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:aux
7	've	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character, polarity=neg, act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **message** | past | Hannah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | could · perfect | You |  | Ella |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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**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:23`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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