Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 16

If a needle scares you, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you.

Who acts: needle, you, sting, vaccine · What happens: scare, tell, look away, breathe out, hold, last · To what, where: you, nurse, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday 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 (needle, you, sting, vaccine), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 scares	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scares	nsubj
4	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 scares	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scares	punct
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nurse	det
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 look	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 breathe	punct
14	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 look	xcomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 breathe	compound:prt
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 breathe	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hold	cc
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 breathe	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hand	det
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lasts	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sting	det
23	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lasts	nsubj
24	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 second	det
26	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lasts	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 protects	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 vaccine	det
29	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 protects	nsubj
30	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lasts	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 protects	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	scare a condition, not said to happen	present	a needle	you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the nurse				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient
3	look away	infinitive	you not said here				away property	tree rules
4	breathe out	infinitive	you not said here				slowly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold	infinitive	you not said here	a hand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
6	last	present	the sting			second		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
7	protect	present	the vaccine		you			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:16.

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 ×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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