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title: Shame is the hot, sinking feeling that comes when you know you did s… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shame is the hot, sinking feeling that comes when you know you did something wrong and you can't stop seeing it: it plays at night like a clip on repeat, and it often grows the longer the thing stays hidden. Who acts: Shame, hot sinking feeling, you, thing. A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm asham
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# Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 0

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Shame is the hot, sinking feeling that comes when you know you did something wrong and you can't stop seeing it: it plays at night like a clip on repeat, and it often grows the longer the thing stays hidden.

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**Who acts:** Shame, hot sinking feeling, you, thing · **What happens:** sink, be, come, know, do, not stop · **To what, where:** hot sinking feeling, something, Shame · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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 (Shame, hot sinking feeling, you, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:0
# text = Shame is the hot, sinking feeling that comes when you know you did something wrong and you can't stop seeing it: it plays at night like a clip on repeat, and it often grows the longer the thing stays hidden.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	Shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	repeat	repeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	often	often	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	43	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
44	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	xcomp	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **sink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Shame | the hot sinking feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | the hot sinking feeling |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | past | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **stop** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **see** | gerund | you *not said here* | Shame |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 8 | **play** | present | Shame |  |  |  | night | like a clip on repeat | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **grow** | present | Shame |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **stay** | present | the thing |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **hide** | participle | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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