--- title: Sometimes we think we were left out on purpose when it was a mistake… — Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and… · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes we think we were left out on purpose when it was a mistake; asking is better than assuming the worst. Who acts: we, purpose, asking. 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 dependen --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 19 Sometimes we think we were left out on purpose when it was a mistake; asking is better than assuming the worst. **Who acts:** we, purpose, asking · **What happens:** think, leave out, be, ask, assume · **To what, where:** we, purpose, mistake, worst · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (we, purpose, asking), 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:19 # text = Sometimes we think we were left out on purpose when it was a mistake; asking is better than assuming the worst. # 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 ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 19 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 assuming assume VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | we | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **leave out** | past · passive | | we | | purpose | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | purpose | a mistake | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **assume** | gerund | asking *not said here* | the worst | | | | | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=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:19`. **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 ×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: [Lonely and different: accents, big bro…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/18/) - next →: [When nobody sits with you: making frie…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/22-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much/)