--- title: Embarrassment is the hot, awkward feeling of being seen making a mis… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics description: Embarrassment is the hot, awkward feeling of being seen making a mistake; laughing it off shrinks it, and other people forget it much faster than you do. Who acts: Embarrassment, hot awkward feeling, laughing, other people. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/16/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Big feelings in big people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/) / 16 # Big feelings in big people, sentence 16 Embarrassment is the hot, awkward feeling of being seen making a mistake; laughing it off shrinks it, and other people forget it much faster than you do. **Who acts:** Embarrassment, hot awkward feeling, laughing, other people · **What happens:** be, see, make, laugh off, shrink, forget · **To what, where:** hot awkward feeling, mistake This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (Embarrassment, hot awkward feeling, laughing, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:16 # text = Embarrassment is the hot, awkward feeling of being seen making a mistake; laughing it off shrinks it, and other people forget it much faster than you do. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Embarrassment embarrassment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 awkward awkward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 11 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 28 than than SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Embarrassment | the hot awkward feeling | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | gerund · passive | | the hot awkward feeling *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | gerund | the hot awkward feeling *not said here* | a mistake | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | | 4 | **laugh off** | gerund | | mistake | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **shrink** | present | laughing | mistake | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **forget** | present | other people | mistake | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | 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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Big feelings in big people, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/15/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/)