Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 0

People act from what is going on inside them, and you only see the outside: a person who snaps at you may be tired, worried or hurting, so a calm, kind answer often helps more than snapping back, though rudeness is never something you have to accept forever.

Who acts: People, you, person, calm kind answer, rudeness · What happens: act, go on, see, snap, be, hurt · To what, where: outside, something

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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 (People, you, person, calm kind answer), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 act	nsubj
2	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 what	case
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 act	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 what	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 act	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 outside	det
16	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 see	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 person	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tired	nsubj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 snaps	nsubj
21	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 person	acl:relcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 snaps	obl
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 tired	cop
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 act	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 worried	punct
28	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tired	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 hurting	cc
30	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 tired	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 calm	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 calm	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 calm	det
34	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 answer	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 answer	punct
36	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 answer	amod
37	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 helps	nsubj
38	often	often	ADV	_	39 helps	advmod
39	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 act	parataxis
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 helps	advmod
41	than	than	SCONJ	_	42 snapping	mark
42	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 helps	advcl
43	back	back	ADV	_	42 snapping	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 something	punct
45	though	though	SCONJ	_	49 something	mark
46	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 something	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 something	cop
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 something	advmod
49	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 helps	advcl
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 have	nsubj
51	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 something	acl:relcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 accept	mark
53	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 have	xcomp
54	forever	forever	ADV	_	53 accept	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 act	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	act	present	People			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go on	present · progressive			inside People	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside they=Location
3	see	present	you	the outside		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer outside=Stimulus
4	snap	present	a person		at you	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Location
5	is	may	a person		tired property	tree rules
6	be		a person not said here			tree rules
7	hurt	gerund	a person not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	help	present	calm kind answer		often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
9	snap back	gerund	calm kind answer not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	not is a	present	rudeness	something		tree rules
11	have	present	you			tree rules
12	accept	to-infinitive	you not said here		forever property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:everyday:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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