Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 9

Grown-ups sometimes say "I'm fine" to protect children from worry; their faces often show the truth, and a hug or "you don't have to be fine" can help.

Who acts: Grown ups, I, faces, you · What happens: grow, say, be, protect, show, not have · To what, where: children, truth · 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 (Grown ups, I, faces, 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	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fine	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 protect	mark
12	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fine	advcl
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 protect	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 worry	case
15	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 protect	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 show	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 faces	nmod:poss
18	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 show	nsubj
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 show	advmod
20	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 truth	det
22	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hug	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hug	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hug	det
26	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 have	advmod
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 show	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 fine	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 fine	cop
35	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 have	xcomp
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 help	punct
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 help	aux
38	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 fine	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Grown ups			sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Grown ups = up			fine property	tree rules
4	protect	to-infinitive	I not said here		children	from worry	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from worry=Theme
5	show	present	ups's faces	the truth		often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
6	not have in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			fine property	tree rules
8	help	can					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:9.

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.

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