--- title: Fears shrink when you know the facts, when you talk about them with… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: Fears shrink when you know the facts, when you talk about them with someone you trust, when you have a plan, and when you face them in small steps. Who acts: Fears, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fears, you), 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:1 # text = Fears shrink when you know the facts, when you talk about them with someone you trust, when you have a plan, and when you face them in small steps. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Fears fear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 face face VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | present | Fears | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **know** | present | you | the facts | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | | 3 | **talk** | present | you | | | | | about facts *= fact*; with someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic with someone=Co-Agent | | 4 | **trust** | present | you | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | you | a plan | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | | 6 | **face** | present | you | facts *= fact* | | | | in small steps | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in step=Theme | 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. **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:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Facing fears, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/0/) - next →: [Facing fears, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)