Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 2
Picture a sleepover: everyone says a horror film "isn't even that scary", then one friend cannot sleep for three nights; scary pictures can stick in the mind, and saying no is allowed.
Who acts: you, everyone, horror film, one friend, scary pictures, saying · What happens: picture, say, not be, not sleep, stick, allow · To what, where: sleepover, mind, no · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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 (you, everyone, horror film, one friend), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sleepover | det |
| 3 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 film | det |
| 8 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 film | compound |
| 9 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scary | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scary | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 scary | cop |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 scary | advmod |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 scary | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | ADV | _ | 15 scary | advmod |
| 15 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 says | ccomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scary | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sleep | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sleep | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 friend | nummod |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sleep | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleep | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 sleep | advmod |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 nights | case |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 nights | nummod |
| 26 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sleep | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 stick | punct |
| 28 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pictures | amod |
| 29 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stick | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 stick | aux |
| 31 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Picture | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 mind | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mind | det |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stick | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 allowed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 allowed | cc |
| 37 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 allowed | csubj:pass |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 saying | obj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 allowed | aux:pass |
| 40 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 stick | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a sleepover | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sleepover=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | a horror film | scary, that property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not sleep | can | one friend | then; night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stick | can | scary pictures | the mind | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mind=Destination | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 7 | allow | present · passive | saying | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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