Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 16
Turning on lights as you go makes the dark less scary.
Who acts: you, Turning · What happens: turn on, go, make · To what, where: lights, dark
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 (you, Turning), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 makes | csubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Turning | compound:prt |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Turning | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turning | advcl |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dark | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 scary | advmod |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn on | gerund | lights | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Turning | the dark | scary property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dark=Product |
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:16.
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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