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description: Under pressure, nerves can block memory for a moment, so even easy things go wrong; "my mind went blank" describes this. Who acts: nerves, easy things, mind, my. A sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 8

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Under pressure, nerves can block memory for a moment, so even easy things go wrong; "my mind went blank" describes this.

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**Who acts:** nerves, easy things, mind, my · **What happens:** block, go, describe, mind · **To what, where:** memory, pressure, this · **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 (nerves, easy things, mind, my), 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:8
# text = Under pressure, nerves can block memory for a moment, so even easy things go wrong; "my mind went blank" describes this.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
23	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | can | nerves | memory |  | pressure | moment |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent memory=Patient under pressure=Location |
| 2 | **go** | present | easy things |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | my mind |  |  |  |  | blank *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **describe** | present |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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**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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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