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description: People sometimes say "I don't care" or "whatever" to protect themselves when they actually care a lot. Who acts: People, I. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 12

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People sometimes say "I don't care" or "whatever" to protect themselves when they actually care a lot.

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**Who acts:** People, I · **What happens:** say, not care, protect, care · **To what, where:** people, lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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 (People, I), 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:12
# text = People sometimes say "I don't care" or "whatever" to protect themselves when they actually care a lot.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **care** | present | people | a lot |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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