Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 5

Under pressure, easy things go wrong because nerves block memory for a moment, so it said nothing about how clever he was; when Dad told his own spelling-bee disaster, they laughed together, and a month later Callum was saying "because" in a silly voice himself.

Who acts: easy things, nerves, memory, Callum, Dad · What happens: go, block, say, be, tell, laugh · To what, where: pressure, memory, nothing, own bee disaster, Callum, silly voice · 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 (easy things, nerves, memory, Callum), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	2 pressure	case
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 block	mark
9	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 block	nsubj
10	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
11	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 block	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 block	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	parataxis
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 said	obj
20	about	about	SCONJ	_	22 clever	mark
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 clever	advmod
22	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 clever	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 clever	cop
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 laughed	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 told	advmod
27	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 laughed	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 disaster	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 disaster	amod
31	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bee	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 spelling	punct
33	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 disaster	compound
34	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 laughed	nsubj
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
38	together	together	ADV	_	37 laughed	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 saying	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 saying	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 month	det
42	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 later	obl:unmarked
43	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 saying	advmod
44	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 saying	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 saying	aux
46	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 laughed	conj
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 because	punct
48	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	46 saying	ccomp
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 because	punct
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 voice	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 voice	det
52	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 voice	amod
53	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 saying	obl
54	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 saying	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	easy things		pressure		wrong property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under pressure=Location
2	block	present	nerves	memory		moment		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer memory=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	memory	nothing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	is	past	Callum				clever property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	Dad	Callum's own bee disaster				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disaster=Recipient
6	laugh	past	nerves = nerve				together property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past · progressive	Callum	Callum	a silly voice		late property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner

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:5.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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