--- title: Being frightened does not make someone a coward; courage means doing… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics description: Being frightened does not make someone a coward; courage means doing the right thing while feeling afraid. Who acts: courage. 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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 21 Being frightened does not make someone a coward; courage means doing the right thing while feeling afraid. **Who acts:** courage · **What happens:** frighten, not make, mean, do, feel · **To what, where:** someone, right thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (courage), 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:21 # text = Being frightened does not make someone a coward; courage means doing the right thing while feeling afraid. # 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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 coward coward NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 ccomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 18 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **frighten** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | | someone | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product | | 3 | **mean** | present | courage | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** | gerund | | the right thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 5 | **feel** | gerund | | | | | | afraid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:21`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/20/) - next →: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/)