Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 11

Unkind comments about looks are often someone grabbing a cheap laugh, and they say more about the speaker than about you.

Who acts: Unkind comments, looks · What happens: be, grab, say · To what, where: someone, cheap laugh, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» 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 (Unkind comments, looks), 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	Unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 comments	amod
2	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 someone	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 looks	case
4	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comments	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 someone	cop
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 someone	advmod
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
8	grabbing	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 someone	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 laugh	det
10	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 laugh	amod
11	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabbing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 say	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 someone	conj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 say	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 speaker	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 speaker	det
19	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 more	obl
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 you	case
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 more	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 someone	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Unkind comments about looks	someone	often property	tree rules
2	grab	gerund		a cheap laugh		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	looks = look	more		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

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:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:11.

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): no change. 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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