Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 4
A girl in Christchurch has the same dream about a wolf every week; she draws it, then draws the wolf turning into a friendly dog that walks her home, and the nightmare stops coming back.
Who acts: girl, wolf, friendly dog, nightmare · What happens: have, draw, turn, walk, stop, come back · To what, where: same dream, wolf, home
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 (girl, wolf, friendly dog, nightmare), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Christchurch | case |
| 4 | Christchurch | Christchurch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dream | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dream | amod |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 wolf | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dream | nmod |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 draws | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 draws | nsubj |
| 16 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 draws | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 draws | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 draws | advmod |
| 20 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 draws | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wolf | det |
| 22 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 draws | obj |
| 23 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 wolf | acl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 dog | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dog | det |
| 26 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dog | amod |
| 27 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turning | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 walks | nsubj |
| 29 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 dog | acl:relcl |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 home | nmod:poss |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 walks | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stops | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stops | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 nightmare | det |
| 35 | nightmare | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stops | nsubj |
| 36 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 draws | conj |
| 37 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 stops | xcomp |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 coming | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | 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 | have | present | a girl in Christchurch | the same dream | week | about a wolf | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | ||
| 2 | draw | present | girl | wolf | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | present | girl not said here | the wolf | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | |||
| 4 | turn | gerund | the wolf not said here | into a friendly dog result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dog=Result | ||||
| 5 | walk | present | a friendly dog | girl's home | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | stop | present | the nightmare | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | come back | gerund | the nightmare 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:4.
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): R7-rel-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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