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title: Mortified means extremely embarrassed; "cringe" is slang for that sq… — Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mortified means extremely embarrassed; "cringe" is slang for that squirming feeling. Who acts: cringe. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away, sentence 6

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Mortified means extremely embarrassed; "cringe" is slang for that squirming feeling.

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**Who acts:** cringe · **What happens:** mortify, mean, be, squirm · **To what, where:** slang

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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 (cringe), 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:6
# text = Mortified means extremely embarrassed; "cringe" is slang for that squirming feeling.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Mortified	mortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cringe	cringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	squirming	squirm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mortify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | embarrassed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | cringe | slang |  |  |  | for that squirming feeling | tree rules |
| 4 | **squirm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: 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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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