--- title: Refusing to talk to hide something about yourself usually keeps you… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics description: Refusing to talk to hide something about yourself usually keeps you lonely for longer. Who acts: Refusing. A sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/) / 10 # Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 10 Refusing to talk to hide something about yourself usually keeps you lonely for longer. **Who acts:** Refusing · **What happens:** refuse, not talk, hide, keep · **To what, where:** something, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» 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 (Refusing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:10 # text = Refusing to talk to hide something about yourself usually keeps you lonely for longer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.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 Refusing refuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 nmod _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **talk** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | | something | | | | about yourself | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Patient about yourself=Location | | 4 | **keep** | present | Refusing | you | | | | lonely, usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:10`. **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. 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