Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 15
Monsters are not real, and looking with a torch and a parent shows there is nothing there.
Who acts: Monsters, nothing · What happens: not be, look, show, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Monsters, nothing), 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 | Monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 real | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 real | advmod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looking | cc |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 real | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 torch | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 torch | det |
| 10 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shows | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 parent | det |
| 13 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 torch | conj |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | conj |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shows | ccomp |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 is | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 is | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Monsters | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Monsters not said here | with a torch and a parent | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | show | present | Monsters not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | present | nothing | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «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:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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