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title: Talking about a scary film with a parent makes the fear smaller, and… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Talking about a scary film with a parent makes the fear smaller, and films are made up with special effects. Who acts: Talking. 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 6

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Talking about a scary film with a parent makes the fear smaller, and films are made up with special effects.

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**Who acts:** Talking · **What happens:** talk, make, make up · **To what, where:** fear, films

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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 (Talking), 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:6
# text = Talking about a scary film with a parent makes the fear smaller, and films are made up with special effects.
# 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	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about a scary film; with a parent | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about film=Topic with parent=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | Talking | the fear |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fear=Product |
| 3 | **make up** | present · passive |  | films |  |  |  | with special effects | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

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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:6`.

**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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