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title: Feelings can also wear a costume: anger often covers hurt or fear, j… — Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times… · tree and pragmatics
description: Feelings can also wear a costume: anger often covers hurt or fear, jokes can cover sadness, and "I don't care" can mean "I care so much it hurts"; grief comes in waves, so a person can laugh in the morning and cry at night, and both are real. Who acts: Feelings, anger, jokes, person. A sentence of t
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# Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 3

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Feelings can also wear a costume: anger often covers hurt or fear, jokes can cover sadness, and "I don't care" can mean "I care so much it hurts"; grief comes in waves, so a person can laugh in the morning and cry at night, and both are real.

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**Who acts:** Feelings, anger, jokes, person, words, grief · **What happens:** wear, cover, not care, mean, care, hurt · **To what, where:** costume, hurt, sadness, waves · **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 (Feelings, anger, jokes, person), 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:3
# text = Feelings can also wear a costume: anger often covers hurt or fear, jokes can cover sadness, and "I don't care" can mean "I care so much it hurts"; grief comes in waves, so a person can laugh in the morning and cry at night, and both are real.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	costume	costume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
10	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
33	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=47:cc
52	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
57	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	nsubj	_	_
58	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
59	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **wear** | can | Feelings | a costume |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent costume=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | present | anger | hurt or fear |  |  |  | often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hurt=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | can | jokes | sadness |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sadness=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a person *= person* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **mean** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **care** *in a quote* | present | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | anger |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **come** | present | grief |  |  | waves |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 9 | **laugh** | can | a person |  |  |  | morning |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | a person *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×3, R5-strong ×3, 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.

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