Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 6
That is how fear after a bad experience usually shrinks: safe, small steps teach the brain again that most of the time it is okay, while being forced or keeping it secret makes it grow.
Who acts: fear, safe small steps, most, secret, brain · What happens: be, shrink, teach, force, keep, make · To what, where: fear, brain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection 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, safe small steps, most, secret), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 shrinks | dep |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fear | cop |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fear | advmod |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shrinks | nsubj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 experience | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 experience | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 experience | amod |
| 8 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fear | nmod |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 shrinks | advmod |
| 10 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 teach | punct |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steps | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 safe | punct |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steps | amod |
| 15 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 teach | nsubj |
| 16 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shrinks | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brain | det |
| 18 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teach | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 teach | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 okay | mark |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 okay | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 most | nmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 okay | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 okay | cop |
| 27 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 teach | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 forced | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 forced | mark |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 forced | aux:pass |
| 31 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 okay | conj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 keeping | cc |
| 33 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 forced | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 keeping | obj |
| 35 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 makes | nsubj |
| 36 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 keeping | advcl:relcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 makes | expl |
| 38 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 makes | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shrinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fear | after a bad experience | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shrink | present | fear | usually property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present | safe small steps | the brain | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is | present | most of the time | okay property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | force | gerund · passive | most of the time not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 6 | keep | gerund | most of the time not said here | brain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | present | secret | brain | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | grow | infinitive | brain not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.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): 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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