Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 11

A change in someone's usual behaviour, such as a chatty friend going quiet or a friend who stops eating or playing, is often a bigger clue than any single thing they say.

Who acts: chatty friend, friend, change · What happens: go, stop, eat, play, be, say · To what, where: bigger clue, single thing · 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 (chatty friend, friend, change), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 change	det
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clue	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 behaviour	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 behaviour	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 behaviour	amod
7	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 friend	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
12	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friend	amod
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	conj
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 friend	acl
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 going	xcomp
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 friend	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 friend	det
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quiet	conj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stops	nsubj
20	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 friend	acl:relcl
21	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stops	xcomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 playing	cc
23	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 eating	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 clue	cop
26	often	often	ADV	_	29 clue	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 clue	det
28	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 clue	amod
29	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	than	than	ADP	_	33 thing	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 thing	det
32	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clue	nmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 say	nsubj
35	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thing	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 clue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	a chatty friend not said here		quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present	a friend			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	eat	gerund	a friend not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	gerund	a friend not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	a change in someone's usual behaviour and a chatty friend	a bigger clue	than any single thing; often property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	change	any single thing not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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:11.

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 ×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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