Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 18
Fear is a normal feeling that every person has, children and grown-ups alike.
Who acts: Fear, person · What happens: be, have, grow · To what, where: normal feeling
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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, person), 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 | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feeling | det |
| 4 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | amod |
| 5 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 has | obj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 person | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ups | cc |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ups | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 15 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 children | conj |
| 16 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 11 children | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fear | a normal feeling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | every person | a normal feeling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:18.
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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