Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 1

That hot face is a blush: stress chemicals like adrenaline widen the small blood vessels in the cheeks, and a lump in the throat comes from throat muscles tightening when you try not to cry.

Who acts: hot face, stress chemicals, lump, throat muscles, you · What happens: be, widen, come, tighten, try, not cry · To what, where: blush, small blood vessels, cheeks, throat muscles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Picking teams and being picked last» of the medicine 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 (hot face, stress chemicals, lump, throat muscles), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 face	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 face	amod
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blush	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blush	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blush	det
6	blush	blush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 blush	punct
8	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chemicals	compound
9	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 widen	nsubj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 adrenaline	case
11	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chemicals	nmod
12	widen	widen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blush	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vessels	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vessels	amod
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vessels	compound
16	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 widen	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 cheeks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cheeks	det
19	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 vessels	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 comes	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 comes	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lump	det
23	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 comes	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 throat	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 throat	det
26	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lump	nmod
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 widen	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 muscles	case
29	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 muscles	compound
30	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 comes	obl
31	tightening	tighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 muscles	acl
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 try	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 try	nsubj
34	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 tightening	advcl
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 cry	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 cry	mark
37	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 try	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blush	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	that hot face	a blush		tree rules
2	widen	present	stress chemicals like adrenaline	the small blood vessels	the cheeks	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient
3	come	present	a lump in the throat		throat muscles	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from muscle=Initial_Location
4	tighten	gerund	throat muscles not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	try	present	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not cry speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:1.

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): 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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