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title: Shame is feeling bad about who you are after doing wrong; guilt is f… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shame is feeling bad about who you are after doing wrong; guilt is feeling bad about what you did; guilt that leads to fixing things is useful. Who acts: Shame, you, guilt. A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection course of Mova's primary s
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# Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 7

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Shame is feeling bad about who you are after doing wrong; guilt is feeling bad about what you did; guilt that leads to fixing things is useful.

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**Who acts:** Shame, you, guilt · **What happens:** feel, be, do, lead, fix · **To what, where:** things

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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, you, guilt), 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:7
# text = Shame is feeling bad about who you are after doing wrong; guilt is feeling bad about what you did; guilt that leads to fixing things is useful.
# 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 ×2
1	Shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present · progressive | Shame |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | Shame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | present · progressive | guilt |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lead** | present | guilt |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 7 | **fix** | gerund | guilt *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | present | guilt |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |

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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:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:7`.

**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 ×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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