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title: After something scary, the danger is over in minutes, but the fear c… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: After something scary, the danger is over in minutes, but the fear can stay for weeks: the brain has learned "this can hurt" and keeps the alarm switched on. Who acts: danger, fear, brain, this. A sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection course 
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# Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 0

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After something scary, the danger is over in minutes, but the fear can stay for weeks: the brain has learned "this can hurt" and keeps the alarm switched on.

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**Who acts:** danger, fear, brain, this, alarm · **What happens:** be, stay, learn, hurt, keep, switch on · **To what, where:** alarm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» 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 (danger, fear, brain, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:0
# text = After something scary, the danger is over in minutes, but the fear can stay for weeks: the brain has learned "this can hurt" and keeps the alarm switched on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.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 ×2
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
3	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
30	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	xcomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is** | present | the danger |  |  |  | after something; minute | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | can | the fear |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | present · perfect | the brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hurt** *in a quote* | can | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **keep** | present | the brain *not said here* | the alarm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **switch on** | participle | the alarm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP 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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2. **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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