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title: Fear sets off the brain's alarm system, the amygdala, which prepares… — The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear sets off the brain's alarm system, the amygdala, which prepares the body to fight, run or freeze. Who acts: Fear, alarm system. A sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline, sentence 6

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Fear sets off the brain's alarm system, the amygdala, which prepares the body to fight, run or freeze.

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**Who acts:** Fear, alarm system · **What happens:** set off, prepare, fight, run, freeze · **To what, where:** alarm system, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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, alarm system), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.lesson:6
# text = Fear sets off the brain's alarm system, the amygdala, which prepares the body to fight, run or freeze.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	amygdala	amygdala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	prepares	prepare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **set off** | present | Fear | the brain's alarm system |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition system=Patient |
| 2 | **prepare** | present | the brain's alarm system | the body |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brain's alarm system *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run** | infinitive | the brain's alarm system *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **freeze** | infinitive | the brain's alarm system *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:068-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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.

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