--- title: "Must be nice" said quietly about a friend's holiday is a small bit… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics description: "Must be nice" said quietly about a friend's holiday is a small bit of jealousy; adults feel it too, and it is only a problem if it turns into unkindness. Who acts: holiday, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Big feelings in big people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/) / 15 # Big feelings in big people, sentence 15 "Must be nice" said quietly about a friend's holiday is a small bit of jealousy; adults feel it too, and it is only a problem if it turns into unkindness. **Who acts:** holiday, adults · **What happens:** be, say, feel, turn · **To what, where:** small bit, holiday, problem, unkindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (holiday, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:15 # text = "Must be nice" said quietly about a friend's holiday is a small bit of jealousy; adults feel it too, and it is only a problem if it turns into unkindness. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 jealousy jealousy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 unkindness unkindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | must | | | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | a friend's holiday | a small bit | | | | of jealousy | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | present | adults | holiday | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | holiday | a problem | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | holiday | | | unkindness | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into unkindness=Trajectory | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Big feelings in big people, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/14/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/)