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title: Waiting for news about someone in hospital is very hard; most operat… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Waiting for news about someone in hospital is very hard; most operations go fine, and the fear comes from love. Who acts: Waiting, most operations, fear. A sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 18

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Waiting for news about someone in hospital is very hard; most operations go fine, and the fear comes from love.

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**Who acts:** Waiting, most operations, fear · **What happens:** wait, be, go, come · **To what, where:** love

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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 (Waiting, most operations, fear), 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:18
# text = Waiting for news about someone in hospital is very hard; most operations go fine, and the fear comes from love.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for news about someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Waiting |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | most operations |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | the fear |  |  | love |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from love=Initial\_Location |

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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:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:18`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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