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title: Art is partly a matter of taste, which means different people like d… — Disappointed: when things don't go the way you h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Art is partly a matter of taste, which means different people like different things; "subjective" means depending on the person. Who acts: Art, matter, different people, subjective. A sentence of the lesson «Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped» of the reflection course of Mova's pri
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# Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped, sentence 14

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Art is partly a matter of taste, which means different people like different things; "subjective" means depending on the person.

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**Who acts:** Art, matter, different people, subjective · **What happens:** be, mean, like, depend · **To what, where:** matter, different things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped» 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 (Art, matter, different people, subjective), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:025-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped.lesson:14
# text = Art is partly a matter of taste, which means different people like different things; "subjective" means depending on the person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 025-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	subjective	subjective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	depending	depend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	ccomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **is a** | present | Art | a matter |  |  |  | of taste; partly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a matter |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | different people | different things |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | subjective |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **depend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on the person | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on person=Theme |

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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:reflection:025-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped.lesson:14`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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