Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 10
People's moods are often about things in their own lives, like a teacher whose pet has just died; not every bad mood is about you.
Who acts: pet · What happens: die
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» 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 (pet), 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 | 3 moods | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 People | case |
| 3 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 about | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 about | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lives | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lives | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lives | amod |
| 11 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 things | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 teacher | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 teacher | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 teacher | det |
| 15 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | obl |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 pet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 died | aux |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 died | advmod |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 things | acl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 about | advmod |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 mood | det |
| 24 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mood | amod |
| 25 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 about | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 about | cop |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 about | parataxis |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 about | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · perfect | pet | like a teacher | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:10.
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. 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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