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title: Fear shrinks when you keep facing it with help. — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear shrinks when you keep facing it with help. 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 3

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Fear shrinks when you keep facing it with help.

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

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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:3
# text = Fear shrinks when you keep facing it with help.
# 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	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **face** | gerund | you *not said here* | Fear |  |  |  | with help | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with help=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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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