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title: Parents can embarrass kids, usually out of love; caring a lot about… — Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents can embarrass kids, usually out of love; caring a lot about what friends think is normal at this age. Who acts: Parents, friends. 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 with its dependency tr
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# Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away, sentence 12

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Parents can embarrass kids, usually out of love; caring a lot about what friends think is normal at this age.

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**Who acts:** Parents, friends · **What happens:** embarrass, care, think, be · **To what, where:** kids, love, lot, age

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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 (Parents, friends), 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:12
# text = Parents can embarrass kids, usually out of love; caring a lot about what friends think is normal at this age.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
11	caring	care	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embarrass** | can | Parents | kids |  | love |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kid=Experiencer |
| 2 | **care** | gerund | Parents *not said here* | a lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | at this age | 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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**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:009-humiliated-in-front-of-everyone-the-moment-that-won-t-go-away.lesson:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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