--- title: Being brave doesn't mean not being scared or not crying; it means fe… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics description: Being brave doesn't mean not being scared or not crying; it means feeling scared and doing the hard thing anyway, so a boy who cries through his jab and still holds out his arm is brave. Who acts: it, boy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, boy), 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:2 # text = Being brave doesn't mean not being scared or not crying; it means feeling scared and doing the hard thing anyway, so a boy who cries through his jab and still holds out his arm is brave. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 ccomp _ _ 16 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 jab jab NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** | gerund | | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **feel** | gerund | | | | | | scared *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **do** | gerund | | the hard thing | | | | anyway *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | a boy | | | boy's jab | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through jab=Location | | 9 | **hold out** | present | a boy *not said here* | jab's arm | | | still | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 10 | **is** | present | a boy | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **jab** | | boy | | | | | | nom jab «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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): 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/1/) - next →: [Needles and brave faces, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/)