--- title: "I don't care!" often means "I care too much to talk about it right… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: "I don't care!" often means "I care too much to talk about it right now"; giving space and coming back later helps. Who acts: quiet, giving. 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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 (quiet, giving), 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:14 # text = "I don't care!" often means "I care too much to talk about it right now"; giving space and coming back later helps. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:csubj 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 17 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 right right ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 24 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | quiet | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **care** *in a quote* | present | quiet | much | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | quiet *not said here* | | | | now | about saying *= say* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **give** | gerund | | space | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | | 6 | **come back** | gerund | | | | | | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **help** | present | giving | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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