Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 12
And Ollie got a stomach ache every single time Theo said, «Shall we play the scary one again?» That's not a coincidence: worry often shows up in the tummy before you even notice it in your head.
Who acts: Ollie, Theo, we, That, worry, you · What happens: get, say, play, not be, show up, notice · To what, where: stomach ache, single time, scary one, coincidence, tummy, worry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» 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 (Ollie, Theo, we, That), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ache | det |
| 5 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ache | compound |
| 6 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det |
| 8 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 14 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 play | aux |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 play | nsubj |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 play | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 23 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 coincidence | nsubj |
| 24 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 coincidence | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 coincidence | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 coincidence | det |
| 27 | coincidence | coincidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | parataxis |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 worry | punct |
| 29 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shows | nsubj |
| 30 | often | often | ADV | _ | 31 shows | advmod |
| 31 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 coincidence | parataxis |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 shows | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 tummy | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tummy | det |
| 35 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shows | obl |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 39 notice | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 notice | nsubj |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 notice | advmod |
| 39 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 shows | advcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 notice | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 head | case |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 head | nmod:poss |
| 43 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 notice | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Ollie | a stomach ache | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Theo | every single time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | shall | we | the scary one | again | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is a | present | That | a coincidence | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | show up | present | worry | the tummy | often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tummy=Location | |||
| 6 | notice | present | you | worry | your head | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:12.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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