Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 13

Nightmares after a scary film are common; they fade after a few nights, and talking about the film or leaving a light on helps.

Who acts: Nightmares, Films · What happens: be, fade, talk, leave on, help · To what, where: light

This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life 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 (Nightmares, Films), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 common	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 film	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 film	amod
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nightmares	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	cop
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fade	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fade	nsubj
10	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	parataxis
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 nights	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nights	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nights	amod
14	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fade	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 helps	cc
17	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 helps	nsubj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 film	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 film	det
20	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talking	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 leaving	cc
22	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 talking	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 light	det
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaving	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	22 leaving	compound:prt
26	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fade	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nightmares after a scary film			common property	tree rules
2	fade	present	Films = film		night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	talk	gerund				about the film	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about film=Topic
4	leave on	gerund		a light			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
5	help	present					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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, 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:adult-life:056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.lesson:13.

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.

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