Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 19

When we are scared the body gets ready for danger: the heart beats fast, breathing speeds up and the stomach can feel tight or sick.

Who acts: we, body, heart, breathing, stomach · What happens: be, get, beat, speed up, feel

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 (we, body, heart, breathing), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ready	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 beats	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heart	det
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beats	nsubj
14	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gets	parataxis
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 beats	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 breathing	punct
17	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 speeds	nsubj
18	speeds	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 beats	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 speeds	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feel	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stomach	det
22	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feel	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 feel	aux
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 speeds	conj
25	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feel	xcomp
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 sick	cc
27	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tight	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	we	scared property	tree rules
2	get	present	the body	ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	beat	present	the heart	fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	speed up	present	breathing		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	can	the stomach	tight property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:19.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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