--- title: People act from what is going on inside them, and you only see the o… — Thinking cleverly about people · tree and pragmatics description: People act from what is going on inside them, and you only see the outside: a person who snaps at you may be tired, worried or hurting, so a calm, kind answer often helps more than snapping back, though rudeness is never something you have to accept forever. 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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, you, person, calm kind answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:0 # text = People act from what is going on inside them, and you only see the outside: a person who snaps at you may be tired, worried or hurting, so a calm, kind answer often helps more than snapping back, though rudeness is never something you have to accept forever. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 060-reasoning-about-people.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 act act VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 on on ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 inside inside ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 38 often often ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 40 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 41 than than SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 advcl _ _ 43 back back ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 though though SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 46 rudeness rudeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 39 advcl _ _ 50 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 xcomp _ _ 54 forever forever ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **act** | present | People | | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go on** | present · progressive | | | | | | inside People | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside they=Location | | 3 | **see** | present | you | the outside | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer outside=Stimulus | | 4 | **snap** | present | a person | | | | | at you | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Location | | 5 | **is** | may | a person | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | a person *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hurt** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **help** | present | calm kind answer | | | | | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **snap back** | gerund | calm kind answer *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **not** **is a** | present | rudeness | something | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **accept** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | forever *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Staying safe and kind online, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/23/) - next →: [Thinking cleverly about people, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/)