Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 0

Torch under the chin, someone whispers: "Say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror in the dark and she appears!" Everyone shrieks and nobody wants to go to the bathroom alone.

Who acts: someone, Mary, Everyone · What happens: whisper, say, appear, shriek, want, go · To what, where: Bloody Mary, mirror, bathroom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths 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 (someone, Mary, Everyone), 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	Torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whispers	advcl
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 chin	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chin	det
4	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Torch	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whispers	punct
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 whispers	nsubj
7	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wants	parataxis
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 whispers	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Say	punct
10	Say	Say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 whispers	ccomp
11	Bloody	Bloody	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mary	compound
12	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Say	obj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Say	obl:unmarked
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mirror	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mirror	det
17	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Say	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Say	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 appears	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 appears	nsubj
23	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Say	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Say	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Say	punct
26	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 shrieks	nsubj
27	shrieks	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wants	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nobody	cc
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 wants	conj
30	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wants	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 bathroom	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bathroom	det
35	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
36	alone	alone	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 whispers	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: express	present	someone					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Bloody Mary	the mirror	time	in the dark	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent mary=Theme in mirror=Manner
3	appear in a quote	present	Mary					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shriek	present	Everyone					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	want	present						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive			the bathroom		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bathroom=Initial_Location

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:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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