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title: Some fears grow from one sad story: Mia is scared of the hospital be… — Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps · tree and pragmatics
description: Some fears grow from one sad story: Mia is scared of the hospital because her grandad died there, but hospitals help and heal far more people than they lose; Ella won't swim after hearing about a child drowning, but swimming lessons and lifeguards make swimming safer. Who acts: fears, Mia, grandad, 
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# Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps, sentence 2

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Some fears grow from one sad story: Mia is scared of the hospital because her grandad died there, but hospitals help and heal far more people than they lose; Ella won't swim after hearing about a child drowning, but swimming lessons and lifeguards make swimming safer.

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**Who acts:** fears, Mia, grandad, hospitals, Ella, child · **What happens:** grow, be, die, help, heal, lose · **To what, where:** more people

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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 (fears, Mia, grandad, hospitals), 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:2
# text = Some fears grow from one sad story: Mia is scared of the hospital because her grandad died there, but hospitals help and heal far more people than they lose; Ella won't swim after hearing about a child drowning, but swimming lessons and lifeguards make swimming safer.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	heal	heal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
37	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
39	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	acl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
46	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
50	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	obj	_	_
51	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	49	xcomp	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | some fears |  |  |  |  | from one sad story | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from story=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mia |  |  |  |  | of the hospital; scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | Mia's grandad |  |  | there |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **help** | present | hospitals |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **heal** | present | hospitals *not said here* | more people |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 6 | **lose** | present | fears *= fear* | more people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality |
| 7 | **not** **swim** | future | Ella |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hear** | gerund | Ella *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about a child | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about child=Stimulus |
| 9 | **drown** | gerund | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **make** | present | swimming lessons and lifeguards |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 11 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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, 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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