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title: Talking about the hope that didn't come true often helps more than h… — Disappointed: when things don't go the way you h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talking about the hope that didn't come true often helps more than hiding it. Who acts: hope, Talking. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped, sentence 9

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Talking about the hope that didn't come true often helps more than hiding it.

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**Who acts:** hope, Talking · **What happens:** talk, not come, help, hide · **To what, where:** more, hope

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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 (hope, Talking), 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:9
# text = Talking about the hope that didn't come true often helps more than hiding it.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obj	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the hope | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hope=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | the hope |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | Talking | more |  |  |  | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **hide** | gerund | Talking *not said here* | hope |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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:9`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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