Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 2
Many fears shrink when you know the truth: a scary film is made up with special effects, a vaccine needle stings for about a second, and counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows if a storm is moving away.
Who acts: Many fears, you, truth, vaccine needle, storm · What happens: shrink, know, make up, sting, count, show · To what, where: truth, scary film · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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 (Many fears, you, truth, vaccine needle), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fears | amod |
| 2 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shrink | nsubj |
| 3 | shrink | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 know | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrink | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 film | det |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 film | amod |
| 12 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 truth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 effects | case |
| 17 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 effects | amod |
| 18 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stings | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stings | det |
| 21 | vaccine | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needle | compound |
| 22 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stings | nsubj |
| 23 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 second | case |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 second | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 second | det |
| 27 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 stings | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 counting | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 counting | cc |
| 30 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 shows | nsubj |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 34 flash | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 flash | det |
| 33 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flash | compound |
| 34 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 counting | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thunder | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 thunder | det |
| 37 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flash | conj |
| 38 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 moving | mark |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 storm | det |
| 41 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 moving | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 moving | aux |
| 43 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 shows | advcl |
| 44 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 moving | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shrink | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | present | Many fears | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | present · passive | the truth not said here | a scary film | with special effects | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | |||
| 4 | sting | present | vaccine needle | for a second | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | count | gerund | between a lightning flash and the thunder | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | move away a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | a storm | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:2.
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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