Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 10

Numbness, feeling nothing at all, is a common first reaction to a shock or a death, and it does not mean the person didn't care.

Who acts: Numbness, it, person · What happens: feel, be, not mean, not care · To what, where: common first reaction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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 (Numbness, it, person), 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	Numbness	numbness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reaction	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
3	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 nothing	amod
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Numbness	appos
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Numbness	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 reaction	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 reaction	det
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 reaction	amod
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 reaction	amod
12	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 shock	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shock	det
15	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reaction	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 death	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 death	det
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shock	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mean	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mean	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mean	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mean	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 mean	advmod
24	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 reaction	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 care	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 care	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 care	advmod
29	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 mean	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 reaction	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	Numbness	a common first reaction	to a shock or a death	tree rules
3	not mean	present · do-support	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not care	past · do-support	the person			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:10.

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 ×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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