--- title: A smile that crinkles the eyes usually means happy; a frown and tigh… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics description: A smile that crinkles the eyes usually means happy; a frown and tight lips may mean angry; a quiet voice and eyes looking down may mean sad or worried. Who acts: smile, frown, quiet voice. 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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 (smile, frown, quiet voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:1 # text = A smile that crinkles the eyes usually means happy; a frown and tight lips may mean angry; a quiet voice and eyes looking down may mean sad or worried. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 crinkles crinkle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 frown frown NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 26 down down ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 29 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=assert, hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crinkle** | present | a smile | the eyes | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | a smile | | | | | happy, usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | may | a frown and tight lips | | | | | angry *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look down** | gerund | a quiet voice and eyes *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | may | a quiet voice and eyes | | | | | sad *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.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): R7-rel-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: [Reading faces and voices, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/0/) - next →: [Reading faces and voices, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/)