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title: What she understood: disappointment and gratefulness can sit side by… — Disappointed: when things don't go the way you h… · tree and pragmatics
description: What she understood: disappointment and gratefulness can sit side by side, and both are normal; talking to Mum about the dog dream, instead of pretending, let the big feeling shrink, and learning about hamsters made room for the small one she had. Who acts: feeling, disappointment, both, big feeling
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# Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped, sentence 4

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What she understood: disappointment and gratefulness can sit side by side, and both are normal; talking to Mum about the dog dream, instead of pretending, let the big feeling shrink, and learning about hamsters made room for the small one she had.

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**Who acts:** feeling, disappointment, both, big feeling · **What happens:** understand, sit, be, talk, pretend, let · **To what, where:** side, room, small one

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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 (feeling, disappointment, both, big feeling), 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:4
# text = What she understood: disappointment and gratefulness can sit side by side, and both are normal; talking to Mum about the dog dream, instead of pretending, let the big feeling shrink, and learning about hamsters made room for the small one she had.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gratefulness	gratefulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	nsubj	_	_
39	about	about	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
41	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=31:conj
42	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **understand** | past | feeling |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit** | can | disappointment and gratefulness | side |  |  |  | by side | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** | gerund | disappointment and gratefulness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Mum; about the dog dream | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to mum=Co-Agent about dream=Topic |
| 5 | **pretend** | gerund | disappointment and gratefulness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shrink** | infinitive | the big feeling |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about hamsters | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hamster=Topic |
| 9 | **make** | past |  | room |  |  |  | for the small one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for one=Asset |
| 10 | **have** | past | feeling | the small one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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