Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 11

A glass or pointer on a spirit board moves because of tiny movements people make without knowing it, called the ideomotor effect.

Who acts: glass, people · What happens: move, make, know, call · To what, where: tiny movements, board, ideomotor effect · 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 (glass, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moves	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 pointer	cc
4	pointer	pointer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 board	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 board	det
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 board	compound
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod
9	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 make	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 because	fixed
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 movements	amod
13	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 moves	obl
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 movements	acl:relcl
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 knowing	mark
17	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 make	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knowing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 moves	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 effect	det
22	ideomotor	ideomotor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 effect	compound
23	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 moves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	move	present	a glass on a spirit board or pointer	tiny movements	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	people	tiny movements not said here	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Product
3	know	gerund	people not said here	board	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	call	past	a glass on a spirit board or pointer not said here	the ideomotor effect	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent effect=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:11.

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): R5-strong ×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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