Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 15

Asking someone something, like to dance, takes courage; being turned down hurts but is normal, and an unkind "ew" says more about the person showing off to friends.

Who acts: Asking, unkind ew, person · What happens: ask, like, dance, take, turn down, hurt · To what, where: something, someone, courage, more, friends · 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 (Asking, unkind ew, person), 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	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 takes	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Asking	iobj
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Asking	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dance	mark
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 takes	punct
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 takes	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 turned	aux:pass
13	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hurts	csubj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 turned	compound:prt
15	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 takes	conj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 normal	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 normal	cop
18	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hurts	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 says	cc
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ew	det
22	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ew	amod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 ew	punct
24	ew	ew	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 says	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 ew	punct
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 takes	conj
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 says	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 person	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 person	det
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 more	obl
31	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 person	acl
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 showing	compound:prt
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 friends	case
34	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 showing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 takes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		something	someone		tree rules
2	like	infinitive					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	present	Asking	courage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
5	turn down	gerund · passive					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»
6	hurt	present	Asking not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	present	Asking not said here			normal property	tree rules
8	say speech: assert	present	a unkind ew	more			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic
9	show off	gerund	the person not said here		friends		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient

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:15.

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): R5-strong ×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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