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title: Nervousness can make the voice shake and the hands fidget or tremble. — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: Nervousness can make the voice shake and the hands fidget or tremble. Who acts: Nervousness, voice, hands. A sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading faces and voices, sentence 12

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Nervousness can make the voice shake and the hands fidget or tremble.

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**Who acts:** Nervousness, voice, hands · **What happens:** make, shake, fidget, tremble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday 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 (Nervousness, voice, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:12
# text = Nervousness can make the voice shake and the hands fidget or tremble.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.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	Nervousness	nervousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fidget	fidget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | Nervousness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | infinitive | the voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fidget** | infinitive | the hands |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tremble** | infinitive | the hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.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): 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.

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

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