Big feelings in big people, sentence 16
Embarrassment is the hot, awkward feeling of being seen making a mistake; laughing it off shrinks it, and other people forget it much faster than you do.
Who acts: Embarrassment, hot awkward feeling, laughing, other people · What happens: be, see, make, laugh off, shrink, forget · To what, where: hot awkward feeling, mistake
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (Embarrassment, hot awkward feeling, laughing, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feeling | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feeling | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feeling | det |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feeling | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hot | punct |
| 6 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feeling | amod |
| 7 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 feeling | acl |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seen | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mistake | det |
| 13 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shrinks | punct |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 shrinks | csubj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laughing | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 laughing | compound:prt |
| 18 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feeling | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shrinks | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forget | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forget | cc |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 forget | nsubj |
| 24 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shrinks | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forget | obj |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 faster | advmod |
| 27 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 forget | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 faster | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Embarrassment | the hot awkward feeling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund · passive | the hot awkward feeling not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the hot awkward feeling not said here | a mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | ||||
| 4 | laugh off | gerund | mistake | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shrink | present | laughing | mistake | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | forget | present | other people | mistake | fast property | tree rules |
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.
Licence: CC 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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:16.
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 ×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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