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title: Fears usually get smaller when you face them in small, safe steps wi… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Fears usually get smaller when you face them in small, safe steps with support. Who acts: Fears, you. 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 18

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Fears usually get smaller when you face them in small, safe steps with support.

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**Who acts:** Fears, you · **What happens:** get, face · **To what, where:** people

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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 (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:18
# text = Fears usually get smaller when you face them in small, safe steps with support.
# 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	Fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **get** | present | Fears |  |  |  |  | small, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **face** | present | you | people |  |  |  | in small safe steps with support | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in step=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:090-facing-fears.lesson:18`.

**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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