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title: Being lied to by a friend can hurt twice: once for what they did, an… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics
description: Being lied to by a friend can hurt twice: once for what they did, and again for the lie. Who acts: friend, surprises. 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 30

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Being lied to by a friend can hurt twice: once for what they did, and again for the lie.

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**Who acts:** friend, surprises · **What happens:** lie, hurt, do

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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 (friend, surprises), 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:30
# text = Being lied to by a friend can hurt twice: once for what they did, and again for the lie.
# 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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	lied	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	csubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:agent	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **lie** | gerund · passive | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | can |  |  |  |  | again | once, twice *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | past | surprises *= surprise* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:30`.

**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): no change. **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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