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title: Seeing a parent collapse is very scary; knowing how to call the emer… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing a parent collapse is very scary; knowing how to call the emergency number and what to say helps children feel less helpless. Who acts: Seeing, knowing, children. A sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» of the reflection course of Mova's pr
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# Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 10

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Seeing a parent collapse is very scary; knowing how to call the emergency number and what to say helps children feel less helpless.

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**Who acts:** Seeing, knowing, children · **What happens:** see, be, know, call, say, help · **To what, where:** parent collapse, emergency number, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» 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 (Seeing, knowing, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:10
# text = Seeing a parent collapse is very scary; knowing how to call the emergency number and what to say helps children feel less helpless.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:JJR:Degree=Cmp
24	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **see** | gerund |  | a parent collapse |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer collapse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Seeing |  |  |  |  | scary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive |  | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 6 | **help** | present | knowing | children |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 7 | **feel** | infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | helpless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R8-pos-agree ×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.

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