--- title: A shaky voice before a hospital visit means a grown-up is scared; be… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics description: A shaky voice before a hospital visit means a grown-up is scared; being brave means doing the scary thing anyway, not feeling no fear. Who acts: shaky voice, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Big feelings in big people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/) / 13 # Big feelings in big people, sentence 13 A shaky voice before a hospital visit means a grown-up is scared; being brave means doing the scary thing anyway, not feeling no fear. **Who acts:** shaky voice, grown up · **What happens:** mean, grow, be, do, not feel · **To what, where:** scary thing, fear · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (shaky voice, grown up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:13 # text = A shaky voice before a hospital visit means a grown-up is scared; being brave means doing the scary thing anyway, not feeling no fear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shaky shaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 cop _ _ 17 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 csubj _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 19 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a shaky voice before a hospital visit | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a grown up | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | | the scary thing | | | | anyway *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 7 | **not** **feel** | gerund | | no fear | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:13`. **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 ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Big feelings in big people, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/12/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/)