--- title: In a scary emergency many people freeze for a moment; shouting for a… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: In a scary emergency many people freeze for a moment; shouting for a grown-up and learning basic first aid help children feel ready. Who acts: many people, children. A sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection course of Mova's primary sch --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 17 In a scary emergency many people freeze for a moment; shouting for a grown-up and learning basic first aid help children feel ready. **Who acts:** many people, children · **What happens:** freeze, shout, learn, help, feel · **To what, where:** scary emergency, up, basic first aid, children 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 (many people, children), 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:17 # text = In a scary emergency many people freeze for a moment; shouting for a grown-up and learning basic first aid help children feel ready. # 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 ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 freeze freeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 nsubj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 15 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 20 basic basic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | present | many people | | | a scary emergency | moment | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | | a up | | | | for grown | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for grow=Recipient | | 3 | **learn** | gerund | | basic first aid | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Topic | | 4 | **help** | present | | children | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | ready *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:17`. **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 ×3. **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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