Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 28
People who say they are not scared at all are sometimes hiding their fear.
Who acts: People · What happens: say, not be, hide, fear · To what, where: fear · 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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hiding | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scared | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scared | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 scared | advmod |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADV | _ | 7 scared | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 at | fixed |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hiding | aux |
| 11 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 hiding | advmod |
| 12 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hiding | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hiding | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | people | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hide | present · progressive | People | people's fear | sometimes property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||
| 4 | fear | people | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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:28.
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): R6-punct-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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