Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 27

Making up a scary story as if it were true can frighten people badly; saying «this is made up» first keeps it fun.

Who acts: trust, saying · What happens: make up, be, frighten, say, keep · To what, where: scary story, people, this, trust · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (trust, saying), 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	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 frighten	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Making	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 true	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 true	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 frighten	advcl
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 frighten	aux
12	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 frighten	obj
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 frighten	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 frighten	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 keeps	csubj
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 made	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 saying	ccomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 made	compound:prt
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 keeps	advmod
24	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 frighten	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 keeps	obj
26	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 keeps	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 frighten	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	gerund		a scary story		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot
2	is	past	trust		true property	tree rules
3	frighten	can		people	badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make up in a quote	present · passive		this		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
6	keep	present	saying	trust	first, fun property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:27.

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, 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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