--- title: He's turned into a proper muppet." ("Muppet" is UK slang for an idio… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: He's turned into a proper muppet." ("Muppet" is UK slang for an idiot.) He was angry and hurt, and he stopped calling round. Who acts: Kyle, Muppet. 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He was angry and hurt, and he stopped calling round. **Who acts:** Kyle, Muppet · **What happens:** turn, be, stop, call round · **To what, where:** proper muppet, UK slang · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» 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 (Kyle, Muppet), 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:1 # text = He's turned into a proper muppet." ("Muppet" is UK slang for an idiot.) He was angry and hurt, and he stopped calling round. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 muppet muppet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Muppet muppet NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 22 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 hurt hurt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 xcomp _ _ 32 round round ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present · perfect | Kyle | | | a proper muppet | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Muppet | UK slang | | | | for a idiot | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Kyle | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | Kyle *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** *in a quote* | past | Kyle | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **call round** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | Kyle *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:1`. **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. 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