Facing fears, sentence 18
Fears usually get smaller when you face them in small, safe steps with support.
Who acts: Fears, you · What happens: get, face · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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 (Fears, you), 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 | Fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 face | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 face | nsubj |
| 7 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 face | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 steps | case |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 steps | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 steps | punct |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 steps | amod |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 face | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 support | case |
| 15 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steps | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Fears | small, usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | face | present | you | people | in small safe steps with support | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in step=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:090-facing-fears.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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