--- title: Big waves are scary, but boats are built to handle rough ("choppy")… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Big waves are scary, but boats are built to handle rough ("choppy") water; seasickness makes fear feel worse. Who acts: Big waves, seasickness, fear. A sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Scary things in the world: news, stran…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/) / 12 # Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 12 Big waves are scary, but boats are built to handle rough ("choppy") water; seasickness makes fear feel worse. **Who acts:** Big waves, seasickness, fear · **What happens:** be, build, handle, make, feel · **To what, where:** boats, rough choppy water, fear This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» 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 (Big waves, seasickness, fear), 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:12 # text = Big waves are scary, but boats are built to handle rough ("choppy") water; seasickness makes fear feel worse. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 handle handle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 12 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 choppy choppy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 seasickness seasickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 22 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Big waves | | | | | scary *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | present · passive | | boats | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **handle** | to-infinitive | | rough choppy water | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | seasickness | fear | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | fear *not said here* | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Scary things in the world: news, stran…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/11/) - next →: [Scary things in the world: news, stran…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/13/) - ↑ 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/)