--- title: Some fears come from things that happened to us, and some from thing… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Some fears come from things that happened to us, and some from things we hear about: a drill, a news report, a video, half a sentence from grown-ups in the kitchen; the mind fills the gaps with the worst version. Who acts: fears, things, we, mind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fears, things, we, mind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:0 # text = Some fears come from things that happened to us, and some from things we hear about: a drill, a news report, a video, half a sentence from grown-ups in the kitchen; the mind fills the gaps with the worst version. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 fears fear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 16 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 drill drill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 31 det:predet _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 45 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 48 amod _ _ 48 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nmod 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | some fears | | | things | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from thing=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **happen** | past | things | | us | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | present | we | some things *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **drill** | | some things | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fill** | present | the mind | the gaps | | | | with the worst version | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gap=Patient with version=Instrument | 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. **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:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:0`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Chased, trapped, frightened: scary mom…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/7-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night/18/) - next →: [Scary things in the world: news, stran…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/)