Needles and brave faces, sentence 4
Fear of needles is very common in both children and adults, and it isn't babyish.
Who acts: Fear · What happens: be, not be, fear · To what, where: needles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine 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 | 6 common | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 needles | case |
| 3 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fear | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 common | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 common | advmod |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 9 children | cc:preconj |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 common | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 adults | cc |
| 11 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 children | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 babyish | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 babyish | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 babyish | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 babyish | cop |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 babyish | advmod |
| 17 | babyish | babyish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 common | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 common | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fear of needles | in children and adults; common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Fear | babyish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fear | needles | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:4.
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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