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title: Missing the signs that someone is angry or upset can turn a small jo… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: Missing the signs that someone is angry or upset can turn a small joke into a real fight. Who acts: someone, Missing. A sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading faces and voices, sentence 21

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Missing the signs that someone is angry or upset can turn a small joke into a real fight.

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**Who acts:** someone, Missing · **What happens:** miss, be, turn · **To what, where:** signs, small joke, real fight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday 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 (someone, Missing), 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:21
# text = Missing the signs that someone is angry or upset can turn a small joke into a real fight.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Missing	miss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | gerund |  | the signs |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | someone | the signs *not said here* |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | can | Missing | a small joke |  | a real fight |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent joke=Theme into fight=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:21`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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