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title: Courage grows by small steps. — Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Courage grows by small steps. Who acts: Courage. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom, sentence 3

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Courage grows by small steps.

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**Who acts:** Courage · **What happens:** grow

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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 (Courage), 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:3
# text = Courage grows by small steps.
# 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	Courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **grow** | present | Courage |  |  |  |  | by small steps | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by step=Location |

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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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**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/).

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