Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 5

She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak.

Who acts: Freya, girls · What happens: whisper, watch, lie, listen · To what, where: mum, scary film · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Freya, girls), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whispers	nsubj
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mum	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whispers	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 watched	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girls	det
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 watched	nsubj
9	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whispers	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 film	det
11	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 film	amod
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 watched	conj
16	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lay	xcomp
17	till	till	ADP	_	18 three	case
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 lay	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 listening	punct
20	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lay	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 creak	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 creak	det
23	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 listening	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	Freya		Freya's mum			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	watch	past	the girls	a scary film				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme
3	lie	past	Freya			till three	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	gerund	Freya not said here				to every creak	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to creak=Theme

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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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.

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