--- title: Asking someone something, like to dance, takes courage; being turned… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics description: Asking someone something, like to dance, takes courage; being turned down hurts but is normal, and an unkind "ew" says more about the person showing off to friends. Who acts: Asking, unkind ew, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Asking, unkind ew, person), 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:15 # text = Asking someone something, like to dance, takes courage; being turned down hurts but is normal, and an unkind "ew" says more about the person showing off to friends. # 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 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 3 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 csubj _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 ew ew NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 obj _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | something | someone | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **like** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **dance** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | Asking | courage | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | | 5 | **turn down** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING» | | 6 | **hurt** | present | Asking *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** | present | Asking *not said here* | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a unkind ew | more | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | | 9 | **show off** | gerund | the person *not said here* | | friends | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient | 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:15`. **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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