--- title: A «maybe» can hide a «definitely» when someone dreads giving bad news. — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics description: A «maybe» can hide a «definitely» when someone dreads giving bad news. Who acts: maybe, someone. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/49/) [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/) / [Lied to by someone you love](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/) / 49 # Lied to by someone you love, sentence 49 A «maybe» can hide a «definitely» when someone dreads giving bad news. **Who acts:** maybe, someone · **What happens:** hide, dread, give · **To what, where:** definitely, bad news 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 (maybe, someone), 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:49 # text = A «maybe» can hide a «definitely» when someone dreads giving bad news. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 maybe maybe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 definitely definitely NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ _ 13 dreads dread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | can | a maybe | a definitely | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent definitely=Patient | | 2 | **dread** | present | someone | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **give** | gerund | someone *not said here* | bad news | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | 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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:49`. **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/). - ← previous: [Lied to by someone you love, 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/48/) - next →: [Lied to by someone you love, 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/50/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/)