Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 3

What Kyle understood: when someone suddenly turns mean, it is often because of something hard happening to them that we cannot see; the snapping was not really about Kyle; it does not make it okay, but understanding it changes what you do next.

Who acts: Kyle, someone, we, snapping, you · What happens: understand, turn, happen, not see, not be, understanding · To what, where: questions, muppet

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 (Kyle, someone, we, snapping), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 understood	obj
2	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 understood	nsubj
3	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 turns	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 turns	advmod
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 turns	nsubj
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 turns	advmod
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 understood	conj
9	mean	meantime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turns	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 because	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 because	cop
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 because	advmod
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 turns	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 because	fixed
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 because	obj
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 something	amod
18	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 something	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happening	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 happening	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 snapping	det
28	snapping	snapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 make	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 really	advmod
31	really	really	ADV	_	38 make	advmod
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 Kyle	case
33	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 really	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	nsubj
36	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 make	advmod
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	obj
40	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 make	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 changes	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 changes	cc
43	understanding	understanding	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 changes	nsubj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 understanding	obj
45	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 make	conj
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 do	obj
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 do	nsubj
48	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 changes	obj
49	next	next	ADV	_	48 do	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understood	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Kyle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	turn	present	someone			meantime, suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	happen	gerund			questions = question		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	can	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not is	past · do-support	the snapping			make, okay property	tree rules
6	understanding	gerund		muppet			tree rules
7	change	present					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	do	present	you			next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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:3.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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