--- title: Masking means hiding real feelings behind a brave face, for example… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Masking means hiding real feelings behind a brave face, for example by laughing a lot; small changes, like not eating, can be clues, and telling a trusted adult is the right step. Who acts: Masking, small changes, telling. 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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 (Masking, small changes, telling), 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:17 # text = Masking means hiding real feelings behind a brave face, for example by laughing a lot; small changes, like not eating, can be clues, and telling a trusted adult is the right step. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Masking mask NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 like like SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 30 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 csubj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Masking | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hide** *not said to happen* | gerund | Masking *not said here* | real feelings | | a brave face for example | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient behind face=Location | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | Masking *not said here* | a lot | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **eat** | gerund | small changes *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | can | small changes | clues and the right step | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 7 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | telling | the right step | | | | | tree rules | 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:17`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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