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title: Voices crack sometimes, more as children grow; it happens to everyon… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Voices crack sometimes, more as children grow; it happens to everyone, and avoiding reading out loud makes the fear grow. Who acts: Voices, children, it, avoiding. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 12

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Voices crack sometimes, more as children grow; it happens to everyone, and avoiding reading out loud makes the fear grow.

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**Who acts:** Voices, children, it, avoiding, fear · **What happens:** crack, grow, happen, avoid, read out, make · **To what, where:** fear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 (Voices, children, it, avoiding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:12
# text = Voices crack sometimes, more as children grow; it happens to everyone, and avoiding reading out loud makes the fear grow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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
1	Voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crack	crack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
17	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **crack** | present | Voices |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | children |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | present | it |  |  |  |  | to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **avoid** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **read out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | present | avoiding | the fear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **grow** | infinitive | the fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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): R2-punct-next ×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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