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title: Fear sends your body into alarm mode: fast heart, tight muscles, hel… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear sends your body into alarm mode: fast heart, tight muscles, held breath, and a tense body feels pain more, so slow breathing out really does make a jab hurt less. Who acts: Fear, tense body, jab. A sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school 
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# Needles and brave faces, sentence 1

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Fear sends your body into alarm mode: fast heart, tight muscles, held breath, and a tense body feels pain more, so slow breathing out really does make a jab hurt less.

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**Who acts:** Fear, tense body, jab · **What happens:** send, hold, feel, breathe out, make, hurt · **To what, where:** body, alarm mode, pain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine 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 (Fear, tense body, jab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:1
# text = Fear sends your body into alarm mode: fast heart, tight muscles, held breath, and a tense body feels pain more, so slow breathing out really does make a jab hurt less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 032-needles-and-brave-faces.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tense	tense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
28	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	really	really	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	jab	jab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
36	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **send** | present | Fear | your body |  | alarm mode |  | fast heart and tight muscles and held breath *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | a tense body | pain |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 4 | **breathe out** | gerund | Fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | present · do-support | Fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hurt** | infinitive | a jab |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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