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title: Being picked because people are scared is not the same as being want… — Jake, always in bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: Being picked because people are scared is not the same as being wanted. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Jake, always in bruises» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jake, always in bruises, sentence 24

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Being picked because people are scared is not the same as being wanted.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** pick, be, not be, want

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake, always in bruises» 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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:24
# text = Being picked because people are scared is not the same as being wanted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 372-jake-always-in-bruises.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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	csubj:pass	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	wanted	want	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» |
| 2 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |

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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:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:24`.

**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): no change. **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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