--- title: A lump in the throat when you hold back tears is the throat muscles… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics description: A lump in the throat when you hold back tears is the throat muscles tightening; it is an automatic stress reaction that fades. Who acts: you, lump, throat muscles, automatic stress reaction. 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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 (you, lump, throat muscles, automatic stress reaction), 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:6 # text = A lump in the throat when you hold back tears is the throat muscles tightening; it is an automatic stress reaction that fades. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 15 tightening tighten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 automatic automatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 stress stress NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 reaction reaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | you | back tears | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a lump in the throat | the throat muscles and a automatic stress reaction | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tighten** | gerund | the throat muscles and a automatic stress reaction *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | lump | a automatic stress reaction | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fade** | present | a automatic stress reaction | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/5/) - next →: [Picking teams and being picked last, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/)