Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 19

Scary pictures stick because the brain is built to remember danger — it can't easily tell a scene on a screen from a real threat at night.

Who acts: Scary pictures, brain · What happens: stick, build, remember, not tell · To what, where: brain, danger, scene, screen · 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 (Scary pictures, brain), 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	Scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pictures	amod
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	nsubj
3	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 built	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brain	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux:pass
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stick	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 remember	mark
10	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 built	xcomp
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remember	obj
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 built	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 tell	advmod
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 tell	advmod
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stick	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scene	det
19	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 screen	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 screen	det
22	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scene	nmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 threat	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 threat	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 threat	amod
26	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threat	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Scary pictures				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	build	present · passive		the brain			tree rules
3	remember	to-infinitive		danger			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent danger=Theme
4	not tell speech: assert	can	brain	a scene	a screen	from a real threat at night; easily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scene=Recipient

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:19.

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 ×2. 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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