--- title: Seeing violence is upsetting even if you were not involved; the brai… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Seeing violence is upsetting even if you were not involved; the brain replays it to try to understand, and talking about it helps it fade. Who acts: Seeing, you, brain, talking. A sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection course of Mova's --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 13 Seeing violence is upsetting even if you were not involved; the brain replays it to try to understand, and talking about it helps it fade. **Who acts:** Seeing, you, brain, talking · **What happens:** see, be, not be, replay, try, understand · **To what, where:** violence 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 (Seeing, you, brain, talking), 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:13 # text = Seeing violence is upsetting even if you were not involved; the brain replays it to try to understand, and talking about it helps it fade. # 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 ×2 1 Seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 violence violence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 upsetting upsetting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 involved involved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 replays replay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fade fade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | | violence | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer violence=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Seeing | | | | | upsetting *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | involved *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **replay** | present | the brain | violence | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **understand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about brain | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 8 | **help** | present | talking | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **fade** | infinitive | brain | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:13`. **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 ×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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