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title: Everyone picks their nose or dribbles in their sleep sometimes; thes… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone picks their nose or dribbles in their sleep sometimes; these are normal body things, not proof that someone is gross. Who acts: Everyone, these, someone, photo. A sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school 
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# Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 20

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Everyone picks their nose or dribbles in their sleep sometimes; these are normal body things, not proof that someone is gross.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, these, someone, photo · **What happens:** pick, dribble, be, sleep · **To what, where:** nose, sleep, normal body things, proof

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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 (Everyone, these, someone, photo), 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:20
# text = Everyone picks their nose or dribbles in their sleep sometimes; these are normal body things, not proof that someone is gross.
# 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dribbles	dribble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pick** | present | Everyone | photo's nose |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
| 2 | **dribble** | present | Everyone *not said here* |  |  | photo's sleep |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | these | normal body things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | someone | proof *not said here* |  |  |  | gross *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | photo |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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