--- title: Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary. Who acts: illnesses, Asking. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Facing fears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/) / 8 # Facing fears, sentence 8 Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary. **Who acts:** illnesses, Asking · **What happens:** ask, explain, do, agree, pause, make · **To what, where:** dentist, hand signal, visit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (illnesses, Asking), 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:8 # text = Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary. # 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 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 pause pause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | the dentist | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dentist=Recipient | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | future | illnesses *= illness* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | | a hand signal | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic | | 5 | **pause** | to-infinitive | | a hand signal *not said here* | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | present | Asking | a visit | | | | scary *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset visit=Product | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Facing fears, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/7/) - next →: [Facing fears, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)