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# Humiliated in front of everyone: the moment that won't go away, sentence 9

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Being wrong in class is part of learning; one wrong answer does not mean you are stupid, and a teacher's sharp comment can hurt, so it is fine to tell a parent.

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**Who acts:** one wrong answer, you, sharp comment, teacher · **What happens:** be, not mean, hurt, tell, comment · **To what, where:** class, part, parent · **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 (one wrong answer, you, sharp comment, teacher), 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:9
# text = Being wrong in class is part of learning; one wrong answer does not mean you are stupid, and a teacher's sharp comment can hurt, so it is fine to tell a parent.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	csubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advcl
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32: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 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | class |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | part |  |  |  | of learning | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | one wrong answer |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | can | a teacher's sharp comment |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | a parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 8 | **comment** |  | a teacher |  |  |  |  |  | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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:9`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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