--- title: Unkind comments about looks are often someone grabbing a cheap laugh… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics description: Unkind comments about looks are often someone grabbing a cheap laugh, and they say more about the speaker than about you. Who acts: Unkind comments, looks. A sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/11-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Cringe that lasts: getting over embarr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/11-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments/) / 11 # Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 11 Unkind comments about looks are often someone grabbing a cheap laugh, and they say more about the speaker than about you. **Who acts:** Unkind comments, looks · **What happens:** be, grab, say · **To what, where:** someone, cheap laugh, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Unkind comments, looks), 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:11 # text = Unkind comments about looks are often someone grabbing a cheap laugh, and they say more about the speaker than about you. # 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): no change 1 Unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 comments comment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 8 grabbing grab VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 obj _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Unkind comments about looks | someone | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grab** | gerund | | a cheap laugh | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | looks *= look* | more | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | 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:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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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