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title: Before a vaccination (in Britain often called a «jab») you can tell… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Before a vaccination (in Britain often called a «jab») you can tell the nurse you are scared, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you from serious illness. Who acts: vaccination, you, sting, vaccine. A sentence of the lesson «Anger and fea
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# Anger and fears, sentence 11

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Before a vaccination (in Britain often called a «jab») you can tell the nurse you are scared, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you from serious illness.

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**Who acts:** vaccination, you, sting, vaccine · **What happens:** call, tell, be, look away, breathe out, hold · **To what, where:** jab, nurse, hand, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» of the everyday 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 (vaccination, you, sting, vaccine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:11
# text = Before a vaccination (in Britain often called a «jab») you can tell the nurse you are scared, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you from serious illness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 212-anger-and-fears.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	jab	jab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obl:unmarked
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | a vaccination *not said here* | a jab |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you |  | the nurse |  | before a vaccination |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | you | the nurse *not said here* |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **breathe out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out, slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 7 | **last** | present | the sting |  |  |  | second |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **protect** | present | the vaccine |  | you |  |  | from serious illness | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from illness=Theme |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

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