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title: Nicknames often fade when the person stops reacting; getting angry u… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nicknames often fade when the person stops reacting; getting angry usually makes teasers say them more. Who acts: Nicknames, person, getting, teasers. A sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 12

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Nicknames often fade when the person stops reacting; getting angry usually makes teasers say them more.

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**Who acts:** Nicknames, person, getting, teasers · **What happens:** fade, stop, react, get, make, say · **To what, where:** nicknames · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nicknames, person, getting, teasers), 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:12
# text = Nicknames often fade when the person stops reacting; getting angry usually makes teasers say them more.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Nicknames	nickname	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	reacting	react	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
10	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
11	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	teasers	teaser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fade** | present | Nicknames |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stop** | present | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **react** | gerund | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **make** | present | getting |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | teasers | nicknames *= nickname* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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:12`.

**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, R7-rel-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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