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title: Knowing what to do next time, like the family fire plan or the emerg… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing what to do next time, like the family fire plan or the emergency number, turns "I was helpless" into "I'd know what to do", and that is one of the best ways to quieten a scary memory. Who acts: Knowing, Kai, that. A sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come
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# Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 5

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Knowing what to do next time, like the family fire plan or the emergency number, turns "I was helpless" into "I'd know what to do", and that is one of the best ways to quieten a scary memory.

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**Who acts:** Knowing, Kai, that · **What happens:** know, do, turn, be, quieten · **To what, where:** one, scary memory · **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 (Knowing, Kai, that), 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:5
# text = Knowing what to do next time, like the family fire plan or the emergency number, turns "I was helpless" into "I'd know what to do", and that is one of the best ways to quieten a scary memory.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:case
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	obl	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	quieten	quieten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like the family fire plan or the emergency number | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **turn** | present | Knowing |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Kai |  |  |  |  | helpless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | would | Kai |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is a** | present | that | one |  |  |  | of the best ways | tree rules |
| 8 | **quieten** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | a scary memory |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent memory=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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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