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title: The fear of what will happen tomorrow is often worse than the day it… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics
description: The fear of what will happen tomorrow is often worse than the day itself, and the fear can stay for a while even after the bullying stops. Who acts: fear, bullying. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 10

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The fear of what will happen tomorrow is often worse than the day itself, and the fear can stay for a while even after the bullying stops.

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**Who acts:** fear, bullying · **What happens:** happen, be, stay, stop · **To what, where:** fear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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 (fear, bullying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:10
# text = The fear of what will happen tomorrow is often worse than the day itself, and the fear can stay for a while even after the bullying stops.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
28	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **happen** | future |  | the fear |  |  | tomorrow |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the fear |  |  |  | day | bad, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | can | the fear |  |  |  | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | present | the bullying |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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