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title: When fear comes from a film or the news, talking with an adult helps… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics
description: When fear comes from a film or the news, talking with an adult helps: films are made up with special effects, and the news shows the worst things, often not the helpers. Who acts: fear, talking, news. A sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Anger and fears, sentence 4

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When fear comes from a film or the news, talking with an adult helps: films are made up with special effects, and the news shows the worst things, often not the helpers.

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**Who acts:** fear, talking, news · **What happens:** come, talk, help, make up, show · **To what, where:** film, films, worst things

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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 (fear, talking, news), 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:4
# text = When fear comes from a film or the news, talking with an adult helps: films are made up with special effects, and the news shows the worst things, often not the helpers.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
17	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	often	often	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	helpers	helper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | fear |  |  | a film or the news |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from film=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with a adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adult=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | talking |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make up** | present · passive |  | films |  |  |  | with special effects | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 5 | **show** | present | the news | the worst things |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |

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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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**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:4`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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