--- title: Fear can make people quit; saying "I was too scared" is braver than… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Fear can make people quit; saying "I was too scared" is braver than pretending to be ill, and telling someone early gives them time to help. Who acts: Fear, people, I, saying. 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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 (Fear, people, I, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:11 # text = Fear can make people quit; saying "I was too scared" is braver than pretending to be ill, and telling someone early gives them time to help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 quit quit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 braver braver ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 23 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ _ 24 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 25 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 26 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | Fear | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **quit** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | saying | | | | | braver *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pretend** | gerund | saying *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | saying *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | early *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **give** | present | someone | | people | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 10 | **help** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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