Starting a band, sentence 12

Stage fright, or performance nerves, is fear of performing; many famous performers say they still get it, and it often fades once they start playing.

Who acts: Stage fright, fear, many famous performers, performers · What happens: be, perform, say, get, fade, start · To what, where: fear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» of the arts 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 (Stage fright, fear, many famous performers, performers), 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	Stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fright	compound
2	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fright	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 nerves	cc
5	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nerves	compound
6	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fright	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fright	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fear	cop
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 performing	mark
11	performing	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fear	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 performers	amod
14	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 performers	amod
15	performers	performer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fear	parataxis
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
19	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fades	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fades	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fades	nsubj
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 fades	advmod
25	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	conj
26	once	once	SCONJ	_	28 start	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 start	nsubj
28	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fades	advcl
29	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 start	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fear	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Stage fright or performance nerves	fear			tree rules
2	perform	gerund	fear not said here				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	many famous performers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	present	performers = performer	fear	still		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	fade	present	fear			often property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	start	present	performers = performer				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	play	gerund	performers = performer not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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