Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 18

Embarrassment changes how we see things: people who were worried about us can look, in our memory, as if they were laughing.

Who acts: Embarrassment, changes, people · What happens: change, see, be, look, laugh · To what, where: things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» 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 (Embarrassment, changes, 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	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 see	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 look	punct
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 look	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 worried	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worried	cop
11	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 worried	obl
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 memory	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 memory	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 memory	nmod:poss
19	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 laughing	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 laughing	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 laughing	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 laughing	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 laughing	aux
25	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 look	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change		Embarrassment			tree rules
2	see	present	changes	things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	is	past	people		about us; worried property	tree rules
4	look	can	people		in our memory	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in memory=Theme
5	laugh	past · progressive	people			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:18.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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