--- title: A pet name is a loving nickname from family; asking a parent private… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics description: A pet name is a loving nickname from family; asking a parent privately not to use it in public is fair. Who acts: pet name, asking. A sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 13 A pet name is a loving nickname from family; asking a parent privately not to use it in public is fair. **Who acts:** pet name, asking · **What happens:** be, ask, not use · **To what, where:** loving nickname, family, parent, public 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 (pet name, asking), 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:13 # text = A pet name is a loving nickname from family; asking a parent privately not to use it in public is fair. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 loving loving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 nickname nickname NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 11 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 privately privately ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a pet name | a loving nickname | | family | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | a parent | | | privately *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | parent | | public | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | 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:13`. **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. **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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