Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 9

Feelings can be mixed too: «Maya smiled, but her eyes stayed sad» means she is hiding a sad feeling behind a smile.

Who acts: Maya, eyes · What happens: mix, smile, stay, mean, hide · To what, where: Feelings, sad feeling, smile · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» of the english 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 (Maya, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mixed	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mixed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 mixed	aux:pass
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 mixed	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 mixed	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 smiled	punct
8	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 smiled	nsubj
9	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mixed	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stayed	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stayed	nsubj
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smiled	conj
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stayed	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 smiled	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mixed	parataxis
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hiding	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hiding	aux
20	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 means	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 feeling	det
22	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feeling	amod
23	feeling	feel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hiding	obj
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 smile	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 smile	det
26	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hiding	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mixed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mix	can · passive		Feelings			tree rules
2	smile in a quote	past	Maya				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stay in a quote	past	Maya's eyes			sad property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hide	present · progressive	Maya	a sad feeling	a smile		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feel=Patient behind smile=Location

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, 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:english:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:9.

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 ×2, 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.

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