--- title: A change in someone's usual behaviour, such as a chatty friend going… — Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times… · tree and pragmatics description: A change in someone's usual behaviour, such as a chatty friend going quiet or a friend who stops eating or playing, is often a bigger clue than any single thing they say. Who acts: chatty friend, friend, change. 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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 (chatty friend, friend, change), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:11 # text = A change in someone's usual behaviour, such as a chatty friend going quiet or a friend who stops eating or playing, is often a bigger clue than any single thing they say. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 14 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 20 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 32 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | gerund | a chatty friend *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | a friend | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **play** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | a change in someone's usual behaviour and a chatty friend | a bigger clue | | | | than any single thing; often *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | change | any single thing *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | 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:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:11`. **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 ×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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