--- title: If a needle scares you, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowl… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics description: If a needle scares you, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you. Who acts: needle, you, sting, vaccine. 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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 (needle, 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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:16 # text = If a needle scares you, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 291-handling-anger-and-fear.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 scares scare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 vaccine vaccine NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scare** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a needle | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the nurse | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient | | 3 | **look away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **breathe out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a hand | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 6 | **last** | present | the sting | | | | second | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **protect** | present | the vaccine | | you | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | 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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/15/) - next →: [Handling anger and everyday fears, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/)