Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 7
Saying "I don't care" or "I'm not bothered" is often a shield over a hurt; saying calmly "it hurts when you don't come" is more honest.
Who acts: I, nan, Saying, hurt, you · What happens: say, not care, not bother, be, hurt, not come · To what, where: shield, hurt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 (I, nan, Saying, hurt), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 shield | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 care | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 care | advmod |
| 6 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 bothered | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bothered | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bothered | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bothered | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 bothered | advmod |
| 13 | bothered | bother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 care | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bothered | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shield | cop |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 shield | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shield | det |
| 18 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 hurt | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hurt | det |
| 21 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shield | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Saying | conj |
| 24 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 23 saying | advmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 hurts | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hurts | nsubj |
| 27 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 come | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 come | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 come | aux |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 come | advmod |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hurts | advcl |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 more | punct |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 honest | cop |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 honest | advmod |
| 36 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shield | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 shield | punct |
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 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | not care in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not bother in a quote | present · passive | Jayden's nan = nan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Saying | a shield | a hurt | often property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | calmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hurt in a quote | present | hurt | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | not come in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | present | Saying not said here | honest property | tree rules |
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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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