Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 9
Turning an embarrassing moment into a shared family joke can take the sting out of it.
Who acts: Turning · What happens: turn, share, take · To what, where: shared family joke, sting
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 (Turning), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 take | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 joke | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 joke | det |
| 7 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 joke | amod |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joke | compound |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sting | det |
| 13 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | a shared family joke | moment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into joke=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | can | Turning | the sting | sting | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sting=Theme out it=Initial_Location |
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:9.
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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