--- title: Distraction, such as counting, looking at a picture, blowing bubbles… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics description: Distraction, such as counting, looking at a picture, blowing bubbles or squeezing a hand, helps the brain pay less attention to pain, and looking away is not cheating. Who acts: Distraction, brain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Distraction, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:7 # text = Distraction, such as counting, looking at a picture, blowing bubbles or squeezing a hand, helps the brain pay less attention to pain, and looking away is not cheating. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 032-needles-and-brave-faces.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Distraction distraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 5 mark _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 blowing blowing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 13 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 squeezing squeeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 cheating cheat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | at a picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | | 3 | **blowing** | gerund | | bubbles | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **squeeze** | gerund | | a hand | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | Distraction | the brain | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brain=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **pay** | infinitive | the brain *not said here* | less attention | | | | to pain | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | | 7 | **look away** | gerund | Distraction *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **not** **cheat** | present · progressive | Distraction *not said here* | | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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: [Needles and brave faces, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/6/) - next →: [Needles and brave faces, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/)