--- title: Stage fright, or performance nerves, is fear of performing; many fam… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics description: Stage fright, or performance nerves, is fear of performing; many famous performers say they still get it, and it often fades once they start playing. Who acts: Stage fright, fear, many famous performers, performers. A sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» of the arts course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/12/) [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/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Starting a band](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/) / 12 # Starting a band, sentence 12 Stage fright, or performance nerves, is fear of performing; many famous performers say they still get it, and it often fades once they start playing. **Who acts:** Stage fright, fear, many famous performers, performers · **What happens:** be, perform, say, get, fade, start · **To what, where:** fear · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» of the arts 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 (Stage fright, fear, many famous performers, performers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:12 # text = Stage fright, or performance nerves, is fear of performing; many famous performers say they still get it, and it often fades once they start playing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 004-starting-a-band.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 5 performance performance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 performing perform VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 performers performer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 26 once once SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | Stage fright or performance nerves | fear | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **perform** | gerund | fear *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many famous performers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | present | performers *= performer* | fear | | | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **fade** | present | fear | | | | | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **start** | present | performers *= performer* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **play** | gerund | performers *= performer* *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Starting a band, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/11/) - next →: [Starting a band, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/)