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title: Sometimes people act scary in public because they are ill, drunk or… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes people act scary in public because they are ill, drunk or upset; the right thing is to move away and tell a grown-up. Who acts: people, right thing. A sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 16

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Sometimes people act scary in public because they are ill, drunk or upset; the right thing is to move away and tell a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** people, right thing · **What happens:** act, be, tell · **To what, where:** public, grown · **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 (people, right thing), 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:16
# text = Sometimes people act scary in public because they are ill, drunk or upset; the right thing is to move away and tell a grown-up.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
26	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **act** | present | people |  |  | public |  | scary, sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the right thing |  |  |  |  | away, move *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the right thing *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |

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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:16`.

**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. **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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