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title: Thoughts with "never" and "always" in them, like "we never do anythi… — Disappointed: when things don't go the way you h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thoughts with "never" and "always" in them, like "we never do anything fun", are usually exaggerations of a real feeling. Who acts: we, Thoughts. A sentence of the lesson «Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped, sentence 19

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Thoughts with "never" and "always" in them, like "we never do anything fun", are usually exaggerations of a real feeling.

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**Who acts:** we, Thoughts · **What happens:** not do, be · **To what, where:** anything, exaggerations

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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 (we, Thoughts), 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:19
# text = Thoughts with "never" and "always" in them, like "we never do anything fun", are usually exaggerations of a real feeling.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	acl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:acl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	exaggerations	exaggeration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | present | we | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Thoughts | exaggerations |  |  |  | of a real feeling; usually *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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**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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/).

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