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# Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 1

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Callum got knocked out of the spelling bee on the word "because", the audience went "Oooh", and on the way home he kept thinking, "BECAUSE.

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**Who acts:** audience · **What happens:** knock out, go, keep, think · **To what, where:** Callum, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» 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 (audience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:1
# text = Callum got knocked out of the spelling bee on the word "because", the audience went "Oooh", and on the way home he kept thinking, "BECAUSE.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Callum	Callum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Oooh	Oooh	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	18	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
33	BECAUSE	because	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **knock out** | past · passive |  | Callum |  |  |  | of the spelling bee on the word; out *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient of bee=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the audience |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | audience |  |  | the way |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | audience *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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