Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 7
Understanding why someone is mean does not make the meanness okay, but it can change how you respond.
Who acts: someone, Understanding, meanness, you · What happens: understanding, be, not make, change, respond · To what, where: meanness
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, Understanding, meanness, you), 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 | Understanding | understanding | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 make | csubj |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 mean | advmod |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | cop |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Understanding | advcl |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meanness | det |
| 10 | meanness | meanness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 change | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 change | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 change | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | aux |
| 16 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 respond | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 respond | nsubj |
| 19 | respond | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 change | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understanding | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | someone | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | Understanding | the meanness | okay property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meanness=Product | |||
| 4 | change | can | meanness | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | respond speech: other | present | you | vn respond-113 «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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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