Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 13
Drawing a repeated nightmare and imagining a better ending can stop it coming back.
Who acts: Drawing · What happens: draw, repeat, imagine, stop, come back · To what, where: repeated nightmare, better ending, ending
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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 (Drawing), 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 | Drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stop | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nightmare | det |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nightmare | amod |
| 4 | nightmare | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drawing | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 imagining | cc |
| 6 | imagining | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Drawing | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ending | det |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 ending | amod |
| 9 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 imagining | obj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stop | aux |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stop | obj |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stop | xcomp |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 coming | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | a repeated nightmare | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightmare=Theme | |||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | imagine | gerund | a better ending | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ending=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stop | can | Drawing | ending | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come back | gerund | Drawing not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.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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