--- title: Twinkling eyes mean fun and mischief, so she is probably hiding a pr… — Inference: reading between the lines · tree and pragmatics description: Twinkling eyes mean fun and mischief, so she is probably hiding a present. Who acts: Twinkling eyes, Inference. A sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/8/) [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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Inference: reading between the lines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/) / 8 # Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 8 Twinkling eyes mean fun and mischief, so she is probably hiding a present. **Who acts:** Twinkling eyes, Inference · **What happens:** twinkle, mean, hide · **To what, where:** fun, present This is a sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» of the english 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 (Twinkling eyes, Inference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:8 # text = Twinkling eyes mean fun and mischief, so she is probably hiding a present. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Twinkling twinkle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 4 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 probably probably ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twinkle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Twinkling eyes | fun and mischief | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Topic | | 3 | **hide** | present · progressive | Inference | a present | | | | probably *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient | 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:english:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:8`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Inference: reading between the lines, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/6/) - next →: [Inference: reading between the lines, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/)