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title: If you are scared of a vaccination needle, tell the nurse, look away… — Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders,… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are scared of a vaccination needle, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you from serious illnesses. Who acts: you, sting, vaccine. A sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water,
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# Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 10

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If you are scared of a vaccination needle, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you from serious illnesses.

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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 (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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:10
# text = If you are scared of a vaccination needle, tell the nurse, look away, breathe out slowly and hold a hand; the sting lasts a second and the vaccine protects you from serious illnesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 319-anger-fears-and-boredom.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 ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | of a vaccination needle; scared *property* | tree rules |
| 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* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 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 |  |  | from serious illnesses | 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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**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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2. **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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