--- title: At tea Grandad says: «Being frightened means you're a coward, lad.»… — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics description: At tea Grandad says: «Being frightened means you're a coward, lad.» Dad puts his fork down. Who acts: Grandad, you, Dad. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 7 At tea Grandad says: «Being frightened means you're a coward, lad.» Dad puts his fork down. **Who acts:** Grandad, you, Dad · **What happens:** say, be, mean, put down · **To what, where:** tea, coward, fork · **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 (Grandad, you, Dad), 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:7 # text = At tea Grandad says: «Being frightened means you're a coward, lad.» Dad puts his fork down. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 3 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:aux:pass 8 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 csubj:pass _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 coward coward NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 18 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 fork fork NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandad | tea | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | frighten *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a coward and lad | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **put down** | present | Dad | Sam's fork | | | | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fork=Goal | 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:7`. **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 ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/6/) - next →: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/)