Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 26
Fear often feels much bigger at night and in dreams than it is in the daytime.
Who acts: Fear · What happens: feel, be
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), 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 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 feels | advmod |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 bigger | advmod |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 feels | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bigger | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dreams | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dreams | case |
| 10 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 night | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 daytime | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 daytime | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 daytime | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 daytime | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daytime | det |
| 16 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bigger | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Fear | big, often property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Fear | than the daytime | tree rules |
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:26.
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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