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title: Almost everyone feels stage fright; practising and slow breathing he… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost everyone feels stage fright; practising and slow breathing help, and the fear often fades once you start. Who acts: everyone, fear, 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 5

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Almost everyone feels stage fright; practising and slow breathing help, and the fear often fades once you start.

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**Who acts:** everyone, fear, you · **What happens:** feel, practise, help, fade, start · **To what, where:** stage fright

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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 (everyone, fear, 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:5
# text = Almost everyone feels stage fright; practising and slow breathing help, and the fear often fades once you start.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
18	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | everyone | stage fright |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=Theme |
| 2 | **practise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fade** | present | the fear |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **start** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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