Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 17

Masking means hiding real feelings behind a brave face, for example by laughing a lot; small changes, like not eating, can be clues, and telling a trusted adult is the right step.

Who acts: Masking, small changes, telling · What happens: mean, hide, laugh, not eat, be, tell · To what, where: real feelings, brave face, lot, clues, trusted adult, right step · 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 (Masking, small changes, telling), 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	Masking	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feelings	amod
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hiding	obj
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 face	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 face	det
8	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 face	amod
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 example	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 example	case
12	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 face	nmod
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 laughing	mark
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hiding	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lot	det
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughing	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 changes	punct
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 changes	amod
19	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 clues	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eating	punct
21	like	like	SCONJ	_	23 eating	mark
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 eating	advmod
23	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 changes	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 clues	punct
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 clues	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 clues	cop
27	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 step	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 step	cc
30	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 step	csubj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 adult	det
32	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 adult	amod
33	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 telling	obj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 step	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 step	det
36	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 step	amod
37	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clues	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	Masking				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hide not said to happen	gerund	Masking not said here	real feelings		a brave face for example	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient behind face=Location
3	laugh	gerund	Masking not said here	a lot			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not eat	gerund	small changes not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	can	small changes	clues and the right step			tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	gerund			a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
7	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	telling	the right step			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:17.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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