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title: What helped was her friend saying, "Mate, last year I fell in a pudd… — Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that… · tree and pragmatics
description: What helped was her friend saying, "Mate, last year I fell in a puddle in front of the whole school," and laughing about it with Mum; what didn't help was hiding at home, which kept the moment huge. Who acts: friend. A sentence of the lesson «Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go
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# Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away, sentence 4

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What helped was her friend saying, "Mate, last year I fell in a puddle in front of the whole school," and laughing about it with Mum; what didn't help was hiding at home, which kept the moment huge.

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**Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** help, be, fall, laugh, not help, hide · **To what, where:** puddle, home · **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 (friend), 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:4
# text = What helped was her friend saying, "Mate, last year I fell in a puddle in front of the whole school," and laughing about it with Mum; what didn't help was hiding at home, which kept the moment huge.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	csubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	csubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | girl's friend |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | girl's friend *= friend* |  |  | a puddle | year | in front of the whole school | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in puddle=Location |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | girl's friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about friend; with Mum | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **help** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hide** | past · progressive |  |  |  | home |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |
| 7 | **keep** | past |  |  |  |  | moment | huge *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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