--- title: Being quiet or withdrawn can mean sad or worried, not angry; asking… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Being quiet or withdrawn can mean sad or worried, not angry; asking is better than guessing. Who acts: quiet, asking. 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 dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Reading people in hard times: what's r…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/28-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face/) / 12 # Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 12 Being quiet or withdrawn can mean sad or worried, not angry; asking is better than guessing. **Who acts:** quiet, asking · **What happens:** be, withdraw, mean, ask, guess · **To what, where:** sad 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 (quiet, asking), 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school:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:12 # text = Being quiet or withdrawn can mean sad or worried, not angry; asking is better than guessing. # 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): no change 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 withdrawn withdraw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 parataxis _ _ 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **withdraw** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | can | quiet | sad | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sad=Topic | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **guess** | gerund | asking *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:12`. **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): no change. **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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