The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 6
Fear sets off the brain's alarm system, the amygdala, which prepares the body to fight, run or freeze.
Who acts: Fear, alarm system · What happens: set off, prepare, fight, run, freeze · To what, where: alarm system, body
This is a sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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, alarm system), 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 | 2 sets | nsubj |
| 2 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 sets | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brain | det |
| 5 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 brain | case |
| 7 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | compound |
| 8 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sets | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amygdala | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 amygdala | det |
| 11 | amygdala | amygdala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prepares | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 prepares | nsubj |
| 14 | prepares | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 system | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prepares | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 prepares | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 run | punct |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fight | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 freeze | cc |
| 22 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 run | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sets | 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 | set off | present | Fear | the brain's alarm system | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition system=Patient | ||||
| 2 | prepare | present | the brain's alarm system | the body | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | the brain's alarm system not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run | infinitive | the brain's alarm system not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | freeze | infinitive | the brain's alarm system not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.lesson:6.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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