--- title: Dentists sometimes cause a little pain to stop much worse pain later… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Dentists sometimes cause a little pain to stop much worse pain later; telling the dentist you're scared, and agreeing a stop signal, helps. Who acts: Dentists, you, telling. 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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 (Dentists, you, telling), 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:16 # text = Dentists sometimes cause a little pain to stop much worse pain later; telling the dentist you're scared, and agreeing a stop signal, helps. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 3 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 much much ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 12 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 14 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dentist dentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | Dentists | a little pain | | | | sometimes *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Dentists *not said here* | worse pain | | | | late *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pain=Eventuality | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | the dentist | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dentist=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | you | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | | a stop signal | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic | | 6 | **help** | present | telling | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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