Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 16
"Boys don't cry" is an old saying; crying is not weak, and older people sometimes grew up with different rules.
Who acts: Boys, crying, older people · What happens: not cry, be, not be, grow up · To what, where: old saying
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 (Boys, crying, older people), 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 cry | punct |
| 2 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cry | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cry | advmod |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cry | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 saying | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saying | amod |
| 10 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 weak | punct |
| 12 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weak | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 weak | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 weak | advmod |
| 15 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cry | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grew | cc |
| 18 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 grew | advmod |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 grew | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 rules | case |
| 24 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rules | amod |
| 25 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express in a quote | present · do-support | Boys | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Boys not said here | a old saying | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | crying | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow up | past | older people | with different rules; sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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