Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 11

People sometimes laugh by reflex when someone falls; a real friend stops and helps when they see you are hurt.

Who acts: People, someone, real friend · What happens: laugh, fall, stop, help, see, hurt · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (People, someone, real friend), 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 laugh	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 laugh	advmod
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 reflex	case
5	reflex	reflex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 falls	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stops	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	nsubj
13	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 helps	cc
15	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stops	conj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 see	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 helps	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 hurt	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hurt	aux:pass
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 see	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	People		by reflex; sometimes property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present	someone			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	a real friend			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	help	present	a real friend not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	see	present	People			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hurt	present · passive		you		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: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): no change. 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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