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title: Hearing hard news from someone else instead of from the person can h… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing hard news from someone else instead of from the person can hurt; saying so can help. Who acts: person, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lied to by someone you love, sentence 45

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Hearing hard news from someone else instead of from the person can hurt; saying so can help.

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**Who acts:** person, saying · **What happens:** hear, hurt, say, help · **To what, where:** hard news, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» 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 (person, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:45
# text = Hearing hard news from someone else instead of from the person can hurt; saying so can help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	13	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **hear** | gerund |  | hard news |  | someone |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent news=Topic from someone=Source |
| 2 | **hurt** | can | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | can | saying |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:45`.

**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): R6-punct-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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