--- title: Reading these clues is not about guessing someone's secrets; it is a… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Reading these clues is not about guessing someone's secrets; it is about not taking every bad mood personally, asking kindly, and telling a trusted adult when a friend seems to be struggling. Who acts: Reading, it, friend. 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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 (Reading, it, friend), 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:5 # text = Reading these clues is not about guessing someone's secrets; it is about not taking every bad mood personally, asking kindly, and telling a trusted adult when a friend seems to be struggling. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 about about SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 18 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 personally personally ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 23 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | gerund | | this clues | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Reading | | | | | guess *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | it | | | | | personally, take *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | kindly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 6 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **seem** | present | a friend | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 8 | **struggle** | to-infinitive · progressive | a friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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:5`. **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): 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. 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