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title: Saying "I don't care" or "I'm not bothered" is often a shield over a… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying "I don't care" or "I'm not bothered" is often a shield over a hurt; saying calmly "it hurts when you don't come" is more honest. Who acts: I, nan, Saying, hurt. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection course of Mova's prima
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 7

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Saying "I don't care" or "I'm not bothered" is often a shield over a hurt; saying calmly "it hurts when you don't come" is more honest.

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**Who acts:** I, nan, Saying, hurt, you · **What happens:** say, not care, not bother, be, hurt, not come · **To what, where:** shield, hurt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 (I, nan, Saying, hurt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:7
# text = Saying "I don't care" or "I'm not bothered" is often a shield over a hurt; saying calmly "it hurts when you don't come" is more honest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	bothered	bother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
24	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **bother** *in a quote* | present · passive | Jayden's nan *= nan* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Saying | a shield |  | a hurt |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | hurt |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | Saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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