Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 14

"I don't care!" often means "I care too much to talk about it right now"; giving space and coming back later helps.

Who acts: quiet, giving · What happens: not care, mean, care, talk, give, come back · To what, where: much, space · 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 (quiet, giving), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 means	advmod
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 care	nsubj
12	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 care	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 talk	mark
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 care	advcl
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 talk	obl
19	right	right	ADV	_	20 now	advmod
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 talk	advmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 giving	punct
23	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 helps	csubj
24	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 giving	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 coming	cc
26	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 giving	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 coming	advmod
28	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 coming	advmod
29	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not care in a quote	present · do-support	quiet				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	present				often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	care in a quote	present	quiet	much			tree rules
4	talk in a quote	to-infinitive	quiet not said here		now	about saying = say	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	give	gerund		space			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme
6	come back	gerund				late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	help	present	giving				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:14.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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