Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 1

Spooky stories are fun because your brain is a brilliant pattern-finder: in the dark it turns a coat into a figure, a creak into footsteps, and a tired face in a mirror into a stranger.

Who acts: Spooky stories, brain · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: brilliant pattern finder, coat

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 (Spooky stories, 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	Spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fun	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fun	cop
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 finder	mark
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brain	nmod:poss
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finder	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 finder	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 finder	det
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 finder	amod
11	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finder	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 pattern	punct
13	finder	finder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fun	advcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 dark	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dark	det
17	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 turns	nsubj
19	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 finder	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 coat	det
21	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 figure	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 figure	det
24	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 creak	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 creak	det
27	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 figure	appos
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 footsteps	case
29	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 creak	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 face	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 face	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 face	det
33	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 face	amod
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finder	appos
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 mirror	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mirror	det
37	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 face	nmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 stranger	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 stranger	det
40	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 face	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fun	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Spooky stories		fun property	tree rules
2	is a	present	your brain	a brilliant pattern finder		tree rules
3	turn	present	brain	a coat	into a figure; in the dark	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Patient in dark=Topic into figure=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:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:1.

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. 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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