--- title: Understanding why someone is mean does not make the meanness okay, b… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Understanding why someone is mean does not make the meanness okay, but it can change how you respond. Who acts: someone, Understanding, meanness, you. 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 it --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face, sentence 7 Understanding why someone is mean does not make the meanness okay, but it can change how you respond. **Who acts:** someone, Understanding, meanness, you · **What happens:** understanding, be, not make, change, respond · **To what, where:** meanness 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, Understanding, meanness, you), 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:7 # text = Understanding why someone is mean does not make the meanness okay, but it can change how you respond. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Understanding understanding VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 2 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advcl _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 meanness meanness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 respond respond VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **understanding** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | someone | | | | | mean *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Understanding | the meanness | | | | okay *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meanness=Product | | 4 | **change** | can | meanness | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **respond** *speech: other* | present | you | | | | | | vn respond-113 «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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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