--- title: Saying mean things about someone behind their back, and being "two-f… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics description: Saying mean things about someone behind their back, and being "two-faced" (nice to their face, mean behind their back), is a kind of bullying; a real sorry and changed behaviour matter most. Who acts: Saying, real sorry behaviour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saying, real sorry behaviour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:11 # text = Saying mean things about someone behind their back, and being "two-faced" (nice to their face, mean behind their back), is a kind of bullying; a real sorry and changed behaviour matter most. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 csubj _ _ 2 mean meantime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nmod _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 dislocated _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 faced faced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 24 behind behind ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 bullying bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 36 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 37 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:amod 40 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 42 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 41 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | mean things | | | | about someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | two *dislocated*; faced *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | infinitive | | | | sign's back | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | Saying | a kind | | | | of bullying | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | participle | a real sorry behaviour *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **matter** | present | a real sorry behaviour | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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