Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 8
Noah made it worse by watching a scary game clip on his tablet in bed — the last thing in his head before sleep was a monster, so that's what his brain played all night.
Who acts: Noah, last thing, that, brain · What happens: make, watch, be, play · To what, where: lamp, scary game clip, tablet, monster
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 (Noah, last thing, that, 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 watching | mark |
| 6 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 clip | det |
| 8 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clip | amod |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clip | compound |
| 10 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watching | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 tablet | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tablet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clip | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tablet | nmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 thing | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 monster | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thing | nmod |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thing | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 monster | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 monster | det |
| 27 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 played | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 what | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 what | nsubj |
| 31 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 what | cop |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 played | obj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 brain | nmod:poss |
| 34 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 played | nsubj |
| 35 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 night | det |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 played | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Noah | lamp | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Noah not said here | a scary game clip | Noah's tablet in bed | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the last thing in Noah's head | a monster | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | play | past | Noah's brain | night | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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, 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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