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title: Fear often shrinks when you talk about it, learn the facts and take… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear often shrinks when you talk about it, learn the facts and take small steps. Who acts: Fear, you. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 4

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Fear often shrinks when you talk about it, learn the facts and take small steps.

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**Who acts:** Fear, you · **What happens:** shrink, talk, learn, take · **To what, where:** facts, small steps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday 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, you), 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:4
# text = Fear often shrinks when you talk about it, learn the facts and take small steps.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink** | present | Fear |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **talk** | present | you |  |  |  |  | about fear | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 3 | **learn** | infinitive | Fear *not said here* | the facts |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Fear *not said here* | small steps |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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**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: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): R6-punct-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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