Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 5

Reading these clues is not about guessing someone's secrets; it is about not taking every bad mood personally, asking kindly, and telling a trusted adult when a friend seems to be struggling.

Who acts: Reading, it, friend · What happens: read, not be, ask, tell, trust, seem · To what, where: clues, trusted adult · 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 (Reading, it, friend), 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	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 guessing	csubj
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 clues	det
3	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reading	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 guessing	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 guessing	advmod
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 guessing	mark
7	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 secrets	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 someone	case
10	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 guessing	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 taking	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taking	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taking	cop
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	16 taking	mark
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 taking	advmod
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 guessing	conj
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 mood	det
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mood	amod
19	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taking	obj
20	personally	personally	ADV	_	16 taking	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asking	punct
22	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 taking	conj
23	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	22 asking	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 telling	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 telling	cc
26	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 asking	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 adult	det
28	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 adult	amod
29	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 telling	obj
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 seems	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 friend	det
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seems	nsubj
33	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 telling	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	36 struggling	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 struggling	aux
36	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 seems	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 guessing	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		this clues			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Topic
2	not is	present	Reading			guess property	tree rules
3	not is	present	it			personally, take property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	gerund				kindly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	gerund			a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
6	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	seem	present	a friend				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	struggle	to-infinitive · progressive	a friend not said here				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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