--- title: Knowing what will happen reduces fear, so children are allowed to as… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing what will happen reduces fear, so children are allowed to ask what, why and how long before a treatment. Who acts: Knowing, children. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/12/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Needles and brave faces](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/) / 12 # Needles and brave faces, sentence 12 Knowing what will happen reduces fear, so children are allowed to ask what, why and how long before a treatment. **Who acts:** Knowing, children · **What happens:** know, happen, reduce, allow, ask · **To what, where:** fear, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Knowing, children), 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:12 # text = Knowing what will happen reduces fear, so children are allowed to ask what, why and how long before a treatment. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 5 reduces reduce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 20 before before ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **happen** | future | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reduce** | present | Knowing | fear | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fear=Patient | | 4 | **allow** | present · passive | | children | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | 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:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Needles and brave faces, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/11/) - next →: [Needles and brave faces, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/)