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title: People's moods are often about things in their own lives, like a tea… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics
description: People's moods are often about things in their own lives, like a teacher whose pet has just died; not every bad mood is about you. Who acts: pet. 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 with its dep
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# Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 10

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People's moods are often about things in their own lives, like a teacher whose pet has just died; not every bad mood is about you.

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**Who acts:** pet · **What happens:** die

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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 (pet), 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:10
# text = People's moods are often about things in their own lives, like a teacher whose pet has just died; not every bad mood is about you.
# 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
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	moods	mood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present · perfect | pet |  |  |  |  | like a teacher | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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