Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 12
Being quiet or withdrawn can mean sad or worried, not angry; asking is better than guessing.
Who acts: quiet, asking · What happens: be, withdraw, mean, ask, guess · To what, where: sad
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 (quiet, asking), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 quiet | cop |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 withdrawn | cc |
| 4 | withdrawn | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 quiet | conj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 worried | cc |
| 9 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sad | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 angry | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 angry | advmod |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sad | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 better | punct |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 better | csubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 better | cop |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 mean | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 guessing | mark |
| 18 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 better | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | withdraw | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | mean | can | quiet | sad | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sad=Topic | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | asking | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | guess | gerund | asking not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:12.
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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