--- title: Fear shrinks with facts, plans and small steps: counting between the… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics description: Fear shrinks with facts, plans and small steps: counting between the flash and the bang shows how far away a storm is, and a meeting place agreed in advance means you know what to do if you get lost. Who acts: Fear, counting, storm, meeting place. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear, counting, storm, meeting place), 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:2 # text = Fear shrinks with facts, plans and small steps: counting between the flash and the bang shows how far away a storm is, and a meeting place agreed in advance means you know what to do if you get lost. # 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): no change 1 Fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 11 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 12 between between ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 18 ccomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 42 lost lost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | present | Fear | | | | | with facts and plans and small steps | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fact=Instrument | | 2 | **count** | gerund | | | | | | between the flash and the bang | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | present | counting | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a storm | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | | a meeting place *not said here* | | advance | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | a meeting place | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 9 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | lost *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:everyday:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:2`. **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): no change. **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: [Anger and fears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/1/) - next →: [Anger and fears, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/212-anger-and-fears/)