--- title: «He's just tired» often means he is screaming, and «she's spirited»… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family… · tree and pragmatics description: «He's just tired» often means he is screaming, and «she's spirited» often means she will not do as she is told. Who acts: He, she. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, she), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:1 # text = «He's just tired» often means he is screaming, and «she's spirited» often means she will not do as she is told. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 014-family-and-behaviour.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:csubj 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 screaming scream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 spirited spirited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 csubj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | He | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | present · progressive | he | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | she | | | | | spirited *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **do** | future | she | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | she | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/0/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: relations…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/)