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title: For a week every laugh in the corridor felt like it was about her, b… — Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that… · tree and pragmatics
description: For a week every laugh in the corridor felt like it was about her, but by the next month most kids had forgotten, because people mostly think about themselves and the next funny thing always comes along; this is called the spotlight effect, feeling that everyone notices you far more than they really
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# Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away, sentence 3

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For a week every laugh in the corridor felt like it was about her, but by the next month most kids had forgotten, because people mostly think about themselves and the next funny thing always comes along; this is called the spotlight effect, feeling that everyone notices you far more than they really do.

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**Who acts:** laugh, most kids, people, next funny thing, everyone · **What happens:** feel, be, forget, think, come along, call · **To what, where:** this, you · **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 (laugh, most kids, people, next funny thing), 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:3
# text = For a week every laugh in the corridor felt like it was about her, but by the next month most kids had forgotten, because people mostly think about themselves and the next funny thing always comes along; this is called the spotlight effect, feeling that everyone notices you far more than they really do.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×7, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
22	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	38	advmod	_	_
38	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	along	along	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	spotlight	spotlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:case
50	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:compound
51	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	ccomp	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	54	advmod	_	_
54	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
55	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	really	really	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **feel** | past | every laugh in the corridor |  |  |  | week |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | laugh |  |  |  |  | about girl | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | past · perfect | most kids |  |  |  | month |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | people |  |  |  |  | about people; mostly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **come along** | present | the next funny thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along, always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **notice** | present | everyone | you |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×7, 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.

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