Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 6
When someone suddenly acts mean or snappy, it is often because of something hard in their own life; "taking it out on you" means letting your bad feelings land on someone else.
Who acts: someone, friend · What happens: act, be, take out, mean, let, land · To what, where: own life, friend, someone · 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 (someone, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 acts | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 acts | nsubj |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 acts | advmod |
| 4 | acts | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | advcl |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 acts | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 snappy | cc |
| 7 | snappy | snappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 acts | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hard | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | cop |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 hard | advmod |
| 12 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 hard | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 because | fixed |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 hard | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 means | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 life | amod |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hard | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 taking | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 taking | punct |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hard | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taking | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 taking | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 taking | obl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 taking | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 means | ccomp |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feelings | amod |
| 32 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 land | compound |
| 33 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 letting | xcomp |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 someone | case |
| 35 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 land | obl |
| 36 | else | else | ADV | _ | 35 someone | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present | someone | mean, suddenly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | friend | clues's own life | something obl:unmarked; hard, often property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take out in a quote | gerund | friend | on you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | let | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | land | infinitive | someone | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on someone=Destination |
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:6.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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