--- title: Fear can make it hard to think, read or sleep, and can bring bad dre… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics description: Fear can make it hard to think, read or sleep, and can bring bad dreams. Who acts: Fear. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sam is scared: fear is normal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/) / 20 # Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 20 Fear can make it hard to think, read or sleep, and can bring bad dreams. **Who acts:** Fear · **What happens:** make, think, read, sleep, bring · **To what, where:** breathing, bad dreams 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 (Fear), 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:20 # text = Fear can make it hard to think, read or sleep, and can bring bad dreams. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | Fear | breathing | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Fear *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **read** | infinitive | Fear *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sleep** | infinitive | Fear *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bring** | can | Fear *not said here* | bad dreams | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dream=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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:20`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/19/) - next →: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/)