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title: Sharing fears about death makes them smaller. — Life and death: putting it all together · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharing fears about death makes them smaller. Who acts: Sharing. A sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 11

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Sharing fears about death makes them smaller.

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**Who acts:** Sharing · **What happens:** share, make · **To what, where:** fears, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 (Sharing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.lesson:11
# text = Sharing fears about death makes them smaller.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.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): no change
1	Sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | gerund |  | fears |  |  |  | about death | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | Sharing | children *= child* |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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**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): no change. **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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