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title: People who say they are not scared at all are sometimes hiding their… — Nightmares after a scary game · tree and pragmatics
description: People who say they are not scared at all are sometimes hiding their fear. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 28

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People who say they are not scared at all are sometimes hiding their fear.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** say, not be, hide, fear · **To what, where:** fear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» 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:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:28
# text = People who say they are not scared at all are sometimes hiding their fear.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	fixed	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | present · progressive | People | people's fear |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 4 | **fear** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:28`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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