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title: Short answers like "whatever" can be about how someone feels inside,… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Short answers like "whatever" can be about how someone feels inside, not about you. Who acts: someone. 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 pragmatics of every cl
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# Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 15

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Short answers like "whatever" can be about how someone feels inside, not about you.

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**Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** be

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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 (someone), 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:15
# text = Short answers like "whatever" can be about how someone feels inside, not 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): no change
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | someone |  |  |  |  | feel, inside *property* | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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