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title: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?», her brain's alarm, the amygdala, fires: fight,… — The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline · tree and pragmatics
description: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?», her brain's alarm, the amygdala, fires: fight, flight or freeze, blood rushes to the big muscles, and thinking and fine footwork get worse, so she freezes with the ball at her feet. Who acts: YOU, blood, she, brain. A sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on 
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# The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 1

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING?», her brain's alarm, the amygdala, fires: fight, flight or freeze, blood rushes to the big muscles, and thinking and fine footwork get worse, so she freezes with the ball at her feet.

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**Who acts:** YOU, blood, she, brain · **What happens:** do, rush, think, get, freeze, alarm · **To what, where:** alarm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» of the medicine 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, blood, she, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.lesson:1
# text = WHAT ARE YOU DOING?», her brain's alarm, the amygdala, fires: fight, flight or freeze, blood rushes to the big muscles, and thinking and fine footwork get worse, so she freezes with the ball at her feet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	WHAT	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	ARE	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	DOING	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	amygdala	amygdala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	freeze	freeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound
25	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	footwork	footwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nsubj
36	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	xcomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | present · progressive | YOU | her brain's alarm  fires and fight and flight or freeze and rushes and the amygdala |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush** *in a quote* |  | blood |  |  |  |  | to the big muscles | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | YOU *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | YOU *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **freeze** *in a quote* | present | she |  |  |  |  | with the ball at her feet | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with ball=Theme |
| 6 | **alarm** *in a quote* |  | her brain |  |  |  |  |  | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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