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title: Fear is a normal feeling that warns us about danger, but sometimes i… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear is a normal feeling that warns us about danger, but sometimes it is much bigger than the real danger. Who acts: Fear, normal feeling. A sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Facing fears, sentence 0

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Fear is a normal feeling that warns us about danger, but sometimes it is much bigger than the real danger.

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**Who acts:** Fear, normal feeling · **What happens:** be, warn · **To what, where:** normal feeling, us

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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, normal feeling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:0
# text = Fear is a normal feeling that warns us about danger, but sometimes it is much bigger than the real danger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 090-facing-fears.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	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	warns	warn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Fear | a normal feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | a normal feeling |  | us |  |  | about danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about danger=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | Fear |  |  |  |  | than the real danger; big, sometimes *property* | tree rules |

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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:090-facing-fears.lesson:0`.

**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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