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title: The beans go everywhere, Jake laughs, and Sam wishes the floor would… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics
description: The beans go everywhere, Jake laughs, and Sam wishes the floor would swallow him up. Who acts: beans, Jake, Sam, floor. A sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 2

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The beans go everywhere, Jake laughs, and Sam wishes the floor would swallow him up.

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**Who acts:** beans, Jake, Sam, floor · **What happens:** go, laugh, wish, swallow up · **To what, where:** Jake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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 (beans, Jake, Sam, floor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:2
# text = The beans go everywhere, Jake laughs, and Sam wishes the floor would swallow him up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go** | present | the beans |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | present | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wish** | present | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **swallow up** | would | the floor | Jake |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.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): 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/).

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