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title: Many fears about death come from things we watch, play or hear rathe… — Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps · tree and pragmatics
description: Many fears about death come from things we watch, play or hear rather than from real life: Jack sees a film at his cousin's where a ghost kills people and cannot sleep for days, yet the ghost was made by actors and special effects and cannot hurt anyone. Who acts: Many fears, we, Jack, ghost. A sent
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# Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps, sentence 0

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Many fears about death come from things we watch, play or hear rather than from real life: Jack sees a film at his cousin's where a ghost kills people and cannot sleep for days, yet the ghost was made by actors and special effects and cannot hurt anyone.

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**Who acts:** Many fears, we, Jack, ghost, actors · **What happens:** come, watch, play, hear, see, kill · **To what, where:** things, real life, film, cousin, people, ghost

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» of the religion ethics 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 fears, we, Jack, ghost), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:071-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps.lesson:0
# text = Many fears about death come from things we watch, play or hear rather than from real life: Jack sees a film at his cousin's where a ghost kills people and cannot sleep for days, yet the ghost was made by actors and special effects and cannot hurt anyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 071-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	_
54	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	53	obj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Many fears about death |  |  | things |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from thing=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **watch** | present | we | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | present | Many fears about death *not said here* |  |  | real life |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from life=Source |
| 5 | **see** | present | Jack | a film |  | Jack's cousin |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus |
| 6 | **kill** | present | a ghost | people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **sleep** | can | a ghost *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **make** | past · passive | actors and special effects | the ghost |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 9 | **not** **hurt** | can | actors and special effects *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |

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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.

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**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:071-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps.lesson:0`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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