--- title: Numbness, feeling nothing at all, is a common first reaction to a sh… — Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times… · tree and pragmatics description: Numbness, feeling nothing at all, is a common first reaction to a shock or a death, and it does not mean the person didn't care. Who acts: Numbness, it, person. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times/) / 10 # Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 10 Numbness, feeling nothing at all, is a common first reaction to a shock or a death, and it does not mean the person didn't care. **Who acts:** Numbness, it, person · **What happens:** feel, be, not mean, not care · **To what, where:** common first reaction · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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 (Numbness, it, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:10 # text = Numbness, feeling nothing at all, is a common first reaction to a shock or a death, and it does not mean the person didn't care. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.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 Numbness numbness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 1 appos _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 reaction reaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | Numbness | a common first reaction | | | | to a shock or a death | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | the person | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:10`. **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. 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