--- title: Signals can be mixed up: people cry when they are very happy, and so… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics description: Signals can be mixed up: people cry when they are very happy, and some people hide their feelings, so the kind thing is to ask: «Are you okay?» Who acts: people, kind thing, you. 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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 (people, kind thing, you), 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:2 # text = Signals can be mixed up: people cry when they are very happy, and some people hide their feelings, so the kind thing is to ask: «Are you okay?» # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:outer _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix up** | can · passive | | Signals | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | people | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | People | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hide** | present | some people | People's feelings | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | | 5 | **be** *speech: ask* | present | the kind thing | | | | | ask *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Reading faces and voices, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/1/) - next →: [Reading faces and voices, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/)