Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 15
Short answers like "whatever" can be about how someone feels inside, not about you.
Who acts: someone · What happens: be
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 (someone), 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 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answers | amod |
| 2 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 whatever | case |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 whatever | punct |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 answers | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 whatever | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 feels | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feels | cop |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 feels | mark |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 feels | advmod |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 feels | nsubj |
| 12 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answers | conj |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 12 feels | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 you | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 feels | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | someone | feel, inside 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:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:15.
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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