--- title: The lie often hurts more than the truth would have; «You could've ju… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics description: The lie often hurts more than the truth would have; «You could've just told me» is a common feeling. Who acts: lie, 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. --- [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/39/) [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/) / 39 # Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 39 The lie often hurts more than the truth would have; «You could've just told me» is a common feeling. **Who acts:** lie, You · **What happens:** hurt, have, tell, be · **To what, where:** more, someone, common feeling · **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, 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:39 # text = The lie often hurts more than the truth would have; «You could've just told me» is a common feeling. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 6 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 13 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 've have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 csubj _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | present | the lie | more | | | | often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Patient | | 2 | **have** | would | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | could | You | | someone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a common feeling | | | | | 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:39`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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