--- title: Grown-ups sometimes say "I'm fine" to protect children from worry; t… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups sometimes say "I'm fine" to protect children from worry; their faces often show the truth, and a hug or "you don't have to be fine" can help. Who acts: Grown ups, I, faces, you. 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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 (Grown ups, I, faces, 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:9 # text = Grown-ups sometimes say "I'm fine" to protect children from worry; their faces often show the truth, and a hug or "you don't have to be fine" can help. # 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): no change 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hug hug NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 parataxis _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grown ups | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grown ups *= up* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | children | | | from worry | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from worry=Theme | | 5 | **show** | present | ups's faces | the truth | | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **help** | can | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:9`. **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): no change. **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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