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title: Fear of a place or of people often shrinks when you face it with sup… — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear of a place or of people often shrinks when you face it with support from friends and adults. Who acts: Fear, you. A sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What everyone learned about fights, sentence 17

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Fear of a place or of people often shrinks when you face it with support from friends and adults.

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**Who acts:** Fear, you · **What happens:** shrink, face, fear · **To what, where:** Fear, place

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What everyone learned about fights» 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:17
# text = Fear of a place or of people often shrinks when you face it with support from friends and adults.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 395-what-everyone-learned.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	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink** | present | Fear of a place or people |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **face** | present | you | Fear |  |  |  | with support from friends and adults | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with support=Theme |
| 3 | **fear** |  |  | a place or people |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:17`.

**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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