Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 21
Being frightened does not make someone a coward; courage means doing the right thing while feeling afraid.
Who acts: courage · What happens: frighten, not make, mean, do, feel · To what, where: someone, right thing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (courage), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 frightened | aux:pass |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 make | csubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coward | det |
| 8 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 10 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 means | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doing | obj |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 feeling | mark |
| 17 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 doing | advcl |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feeling | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | 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 | frighten | gerund · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | someone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | courage | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | the right thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | afraid 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:21.
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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