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title: Saying "I want to die" after embarrassment is usually an exaggeratio… — Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying "I want to die" after embarrassment is usually an exaggeration, but it is a strong phrase, so it is good to tell someone how you really feel. Who acts: I, Saying, teacher, you. A sentence of the lesson «Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away» of the reflection course o
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# Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away, sentence 11

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Saying "I want to die" after embarrassment is usually an exaggeration, but it is a strong phrase, so it is good to tell someone how you really feel.

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**Who acts:** I, Saying, teacher, you · **What happens:** say, want, die, be, tell, feel · **To what, where:** exaggeration, strong phrase, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away» 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 (I, Saying, teacher, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:009-humiliated-in-front-of-everyone-the-moment-that-won-t-go-away.lesson:11
# text = Saying "I want to die" after embarrassment is usually an exaggeration, but it is a strong phrase, so it is good to tell someone how you really feel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 009-humiliated-in-front-of-everyone-the-moment-that-won-t-go-away.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	csubj	_	_
28	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	iobj	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	really	really	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  | after embarrassment |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **die** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Saying | a exaggeration but a strong phrase |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | teacher | a strong phrase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | Saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | someone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **feel** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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