Big feelings in big people, sentence 13

A shaky voice before a hospital visit means a grown-up is scared; being brave means doing the scary thing anyway, not feeling no fear.

Who acts: shaky voice, grown up · What happens: mean, grow, be, do, not feel · To what, where: scary thing, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (shaky voice, grown up), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voice	det
2	shaky	shaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
4	before	before	ADP	_	7 visit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 visit	det
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 visit	compound
7	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 up	det
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 up	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grown	punct
12	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scared	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 scared	cop
14	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 brave	cop
17	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 means	csubj
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	parataxis
19	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 means	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doing	obj
23	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	19 doing	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 feeling	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 feeling	advmod
26	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 doing	advcl
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 fear	det
28	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeling	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a shaky voice before a hospital visit			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	a grown up		scared property	tree rules
4	is	gerund			brave property	tree rules
5	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	gerund		the scary thing	anyway property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
7	not feel	gerund		no fear		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme

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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:13.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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