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title: Praise or an award you did not earn rarely feels good, because you k… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Praise or an award you did not earn rarely feels good, because you know the truth; honesty makes the next award feel real. Who acts: you, Praise, honesty, next award. A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school 
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# Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 14

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Praise or an award you did not earn rarely feels good, because you know the truth; honesty makes the next award feel real.

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**Who acts:** you, Praise, honesty, next award · **What happens:** not earn, feel, know, make · **To what, where:** award, truth, next award

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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 (you, Praise, honesty, next award), 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:14
# text = Praise or an award you did not earn rarely feels good, because you know the truth; honesty makes the next award feel real.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	award	award	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	award	award	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **earn** | past · do-support | you | a award *not said here* |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent award=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present | Praise or a award |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present | you | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | present | honesty | the next award |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | the next award *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

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

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