Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 4
Fear often shrinks when you talk about it, learn the facts and take small steps.
Who acts: Fear, you · What happens: shrink, talk, learn, take · To what, where: facts, small steps
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 (Fear, you), 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shrinks | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 shrinks | advmod |
| 3 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 talk | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 talk | nsubj |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrinks | advcl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 talk | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrinks | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 facts | det |
| 12 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 learn | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | conj |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 steps | amod |
| 16 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shrinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | present | Fear | often property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | you | about fear | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | Fear not said here | the facts | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Fear not said here | small steps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:4.
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): R6-punct-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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