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title: Telling a trusted grown-up about a fear helps more than hiding it, a… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling a trusted grown-up about a fear helps more than hiding it, and "you're too old to be scared" never helps. Who acts: Telling, you. 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 dependency tree and the
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# Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 19

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Telling a trusted grown-up about a fear helps more than hiding it, and "you're too old to be scared" never helps.

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**Who acts:** Telling, you · **What happens:** tell, trust, grow up, help, hide, be · **To what, where:** monster · **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 (Telling, you), 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:19
# text = Telling a trusted grown-up about a fear helps more than hiding it, and "you're too old to be scared" never helps.
# 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 ×1, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:iobj
3	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	obj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=4:compound
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
10	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	csubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about a fear | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about fear=Topic |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | present | Telling |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hide** | gerund | Telling *not said here* | monster |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **help** | present | Telling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:19`.

**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, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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