Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 6

A lump in the throat when you hold back tears is the throat muscles tightening; it is an automatic stress reaction that fades.

Who acts: you, lump, throat muscles, automatic stress reaction · What happens: hold, be, tighten, fade · To what, where: back tears, throat muscles, automatic stress reaction

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 (you, lump, throat muscles, automatic stress reaction), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 muscles	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 throat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 throat	det
5	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	nmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 hold	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hold	nsubj
8	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lump	advcl
9	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tears	amod
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hold	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 muscles	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 muscles	det
13	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 muscles	compound
14	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	tightening	tighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 muscles	acl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 reaction	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reaction	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 reaction	cop
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 reaction	det
20	automatic	automatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reaction	amod
21	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reaction	compound
22	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 muscles	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fades	nsubj
24	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 reaction	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 muscles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold	present	you	back tears	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
2	is a	present	a lump in the throat	the throat muscles and a automatic stress reaction	tree rules
3	tighten	gerund	the throat muscles and a automatic stress reaction not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	lump	a automatic stress reaction	tree rules
5	fade	present	a automatic stress reaction		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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