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title: Feeling nervous, blushing or shaking when you speak up is normal and… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeling nervous, blushing or shaking when you speak up is normal and does not make it any less brave. Who acts: you, Feeling. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 20

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Feeling nervous, blushing or shaking when you speak up is normal and does not make it any less brave.

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**Who acts:** you, Feeling · **What happens:** feel, blush, shake, speak up, be, not make · **To what, where:** sorry

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (you, Feeling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:20
# text = Feeling nervous, blushing or shaking when you speak up is normal and does not make it any less brave.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	blushing	blush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	any	any	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **speak up** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | Feeling |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Feeling *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  | brave *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:20`.

**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. **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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