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title: Getting hurt in front of people adds embarrassment to pain; flinchin… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting hurt in front of people adds embarrassment to pain; flinching when a ball comes near is normal for a while afterwards. Who acts: ball, flinching. A sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 14

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Getting hurt in front of people adds embarrassment to pain; flinching when a ball comes near is normal for a while afterwards.

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**Who acts:** ball, flinching · **What happens:** hurt, add, flinch, come, be · **To what, where:** front, embarrassment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» 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 (ball, flinching), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:14
# text = Getting hurt in front of people adds embarrassment to pain; flinching when a ball comes near is normal for a while afterwards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.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): no change
1	Getting	get	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	csubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	flinching	flinch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	near	near	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **hurt** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | front of people |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present |  | embarrassment |  |  |  | to pain | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent embarrassment=Patient to pain=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **flinch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | present | a ball |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | flinching |  |  |  | while | afterwards, normal *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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**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): no change. **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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