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title: Being lied to by a friend hurts twice: once for the secret, once for… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics
description: Being lied to by a friend hurts twice: once for the secret, once for the lie. Who acts: friend. 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 4

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Being lied to by a friend hurts twice: once for the secret, once for the lie.

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

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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), 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:4
# text = Being lied to by a friend hurts twice: once for the secret, once 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	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	lied	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	csubj:pass	_	_
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	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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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** | present |  |  |  |  |  | once, twice *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:4`.

**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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