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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mate, Kyle, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:0 # text = For weeks Kyle's mate Dev kept snapping at him, "Leave it, man, just leave it," and Kyle lay in bed thinking: "What did I do? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 3 Kyle Kyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:poss 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 Dev Dev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 Kyle Kyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lay lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 thinking thinking VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 31 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 32 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Kyle's mate | | | | week | | tree rules | | 2 | **snap** | gerund | Kyle's mate *not said here* | | | | | at Dev | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | | 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | Kyle's mate *not said here* | mate | | | | man *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | | mate | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **lay** | past | Kyle | | | bed | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination | | 6 | **thinking** | gerund | Kyle *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | past · do-support | I | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:0`. **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 ×4, 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/). - ← previous: [Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, s…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/17/) - next →: [Reading people in hard times: what's r…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face/)