--- title: "Boys don't cry" is an old saying; crying is not weak, and older peo… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: "Boys don't cry" is an old saying; crying is not weak, and older people sometimes grew up with different rules. Who acts: Boys, crying, older people. 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 --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 16 "Boys don't cry" is an old saying; crying is not weak, and older people sometimes grew up with different rules. **Who acts:** Boys, crying, older people · **What happens:** not cry, be, not be, grow up · **To what, where:** old saying 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 (Boys, crying, older people), 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:16 # text = "Boys don't cry" is an old saying; crying is not weak, and older people sometimes grew up with different rules. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 crying crying NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 21 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present · do-support | Boys | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Boys *not said here* | a old saying | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | crying | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow up** | past | older people | | | | | with different rules; sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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