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title: Being told off in public hurts more than in private, and being wrong… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being told off in public hurts more than in private, and being wrongly blamed adds a feeling of injustice that lasts after others forget. Who acts: feeling, others. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 17

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Being told off in public hurts more than in private, and being wrongly blamed adds a feeling of injustice that lasts after others forget.

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**Who acts:** feeling, others · **What happens:** tell off, hurt, blame, add, last, forget · **To what, where:** public, feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 (feeling, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:17
# text = Being told off in public hurts more than in private, and being wrongly blamed adds a feeling of injustice that lasts after others forget.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj:pass	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	csubj:pass	_	_
16	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive |  |  |  | public |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **hurt** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than private | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **blame** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present |  | a feeling of injustice |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |
| 5 | **last** | present | a feeling of injustice |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **forget** | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:17`.

**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/).

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