--- title: Many adults remember being scared at school; talking about it helps… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics description: Many adults remember being scared at school; talking about it helps children feel less alone. Who acts: Many adults, talking, children. 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/27/) [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/) / 27 # Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 27 Many adults remember being scared at school; talking about it helps children feel less alone. **Who acts:** Many adults, talking, children · **What happens:** remember, scare, talk, help, feel · **To what, where:** school, children 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 (Many adults, talking, children), 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:27 # text = Many adults remember being scared at school; talking about it helps children feel less alone. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 scared scare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 xcomp _ _ 15 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 16 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | present | Many adults | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **scare** | gerund · passive | Many adults *not said here* | | | school | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about school | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 4 | **help** | present | talking | children | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | present | children *not said here* | | | | | alone *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:27`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/26/) - next →: [Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/)