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title: People hide hard times in many ways: "I'm fine" with red eyes, "I do… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics
description: People hide hard times in many ways: "I'm fine" with red eyes, "I don't care!" with a slammed door, "Whatever" with a stomach ache, laughing a lot while not eating lunch; the words say one thing, and the face, the habits and the changes say another. Who acts: People, Kyle, words, stomach ache. A sen
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# Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 4

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People hide hard times in many ways: "I'm fine" with red eyes, "I don't care!" with a slammed door, "Whatever" with a stomach ache, laughing a lot while not eating lunch; the words say one thing, and the face, the habits and the changes say another.

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**Who acts:** People, Kyle, words, stomach ache, face · **What happens:** hide, be, not care, slam, laugh, not eat · **To what, where:** many ways, lot, lunch, one thing, another · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (People, Kyle, words, stomach ache), 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:4
# text = People hide hard times in many ways: "I'm fine" with red eyes, "I don't care!" with a slammed door, "Whatever" with a stomach ache, laughing a lot while not eating lunch; the words say one thing, and the face, the habits and the changes say another.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	slammed	slam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
31	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	advcl	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj
41	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
44	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:appos
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
61	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=54:conj
62	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	obj	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | People |  |  | many ways | time | with a slammed door | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Kyle |  |  |  |  | with red eyes; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the words *= word* | many ways *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slam** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund | a stomach ache *not said here* | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **eat** | gerund | a stomach ache *not said here* | lunch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the words | one thing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the face and the habits | another |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic |

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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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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