--- title: Being nice to someone's face and unkind behind their back is called… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics description: Being nice to someone's face and unkind behind their back is called being two-faced, and it is a kind of lying. Who acts: lie. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Being lied to and how it feels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/) / 37 # Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 37 Being nice to someone's face and unkind behind their back is called being two-faced, and it is a kind of lying. **Who acts:** lie · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (lie), 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:37 # text = Being nice to someone's face and unkind behind their back is called being two-faced, and it is a kind of lying. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:csubj:pass 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 behind behind ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 cop _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 dislocated _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 faced faced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 lying lying NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to someone's face; nice *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | two *dislocated*; faced *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | lie | a kind | | | | of lying | 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:37`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Being lied to and how it feels, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/36/) - next →: [Being lied to and how it feels, 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/38/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/)