--- title: That hot face is a blush: stress chemicals like adrenaline widen the… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics description: That hot face is a blush: stress chemicals like adrenaline widen the small blood vessels in the cheeks, and a lump in the throat comes from throat muscles tightening when you try not to cry. Who acts: hot face, stress chemicals, lump, throat muscles. 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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 (hot face, stress chemicals, lump, throat muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:1 # text = That hot face is a blush: stress chemicals like adrenaline widen the small blood vessels in the cheeks, and a lump in the throat comes from throat muscles tightening when you try not to cry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 blush blush NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 stress stress NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 adrenaline adrenaline NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 widen widen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 tightening tighten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 acl _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | that hot face | a blush | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **widen** | present | stress chemicals like adrenaline | the small blood vessels | | the cheeks | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient | | 3 | **come** | present | a lump in the throat | | | throat muscles | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from muscle=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **tighten** | gerund | throat muscles *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **try** | present | you | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:1`. **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): 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: [Picking teams and being picked last, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/0/) - next →: [Picking teams and being picked last, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/)