--- title: Many fears shrink when you know the truth: a scary film is made up w… — Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders,… · tree and pragmatics description: Many fears shrink when you know the truth: a scary film is made up with special effects, a vaccine needle stings for about a second, and counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows if a storm is moving away. Who acts: Many fears, you, truth, vaccine needle. 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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 (Many fears, you, truth, vaccine needle), 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:2 # text = Many fears shrink when you know the truth: a scary film is made up with special effects, a vaccine needle stings for about a second, and counting between a lightning flash and the thunder shows if a storm is moving away. # 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): no change 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fears fear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 effects effect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 vaccine vaccine NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stings sting VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 nsubj _ _ 31 between between ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 38 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 44 away away ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | present | Many fears | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **know** | present | you | the truth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make up** | present · passive | the truth *not said here* | a scary film | | | | with special effects | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | | 4 | **sting** | present | vaccine needle | | | | | for a second | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **count** | gerund | | | | | | between a lightning flash and the thunder | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **show** | present | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **move away** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | a storm | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.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, fears (films, needles, thunder,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/1/) - next →: [Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder,…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/)