--- title: Lots of children feel scared of dying at some point; it is normal, a… — Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I… · tree and pragmatics description: Lots of children feel scared of dying at some point; it is normal, and talking about it makes the fear smaller. Who acts: Lots, sleep, talking. 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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 (Lots, sleep, talking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.lesson:9 # text = Lots of children feel scared of dying at some point; it is normal, and talking about it makes the fear smaller. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:expl 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 18 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Lots of children | | | | | scared *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **die** | gerund | Lots of children *not said here* | | | some point | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | present | sleep | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about sleep | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **make** | present | talking | the fear | | | | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fear=Product | 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:religion-ethics:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.lesson:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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