--- title: When someone suddenly acts mean or snappy, it is often because of so… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: When someone suddenly acts mean or snappy, it is often because of something hard in their own life; "taking it out on you" means letting your bad feelings land on someone else. Who acts: someone, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» of t --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 6 When someone suddenly acts mean or snappy, it is often because of something hard in their own life; "taking it out on you" means letting your bad feelings land on someone else. **Who acts:** someone, friend · **What happens:** act, be, take out, mean, let, land · **To what, where:** own life, friend, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, 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:6 # text = When someone suddenly acts mean or snappy, it is often because of something hard in their own life; "taking it out on you" means letting your bad feelings land on someone else. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 acts act VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 5 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 snappy snappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 11 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 ccomp _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod:poss 31 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 compound _ _ 33 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 36 else else ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **act** | present | someone | | | | | mean, suddenly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | friend | | | clues's own life | | something *obl:unmarked*; hard, often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take out** *in a quote* | gerund | | friend | | | | on you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **land** | infinitive | | | | someone | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on someone=Destination | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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