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title: Crying is a natural way to show fear or pain and let out stress, and… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics
description: Crying is a natural way to show fear or pain and let out stress, and dentists and nurses see it every day. A sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Needles and brave faces, sentence 10

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Crying is a natural way to show fear or pain and let out stress, and dentists and nurses see it every day.

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**What happens:** cry, be, show, let out, see · **To what, where:** natural way, fear, stress

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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: 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:10
# text = Crying is a natural way to show fear or pain and let out stress, and dentists and nurses see it every day.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	dentists	dentist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a natural way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | fear or pain |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Recipient |
| 4 | **let out** | infinitive |  | stress |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stress=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | present |  | stress |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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