Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 14
In the dark, our brains are more likely to imagine danger, which is why ordinary shapes and sounds feel scary at night.
Who acts: brains · What happens: be, imagine · To what, where: dark, danger
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 (brains), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dark | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dark | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 likely | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dark | punct |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brains | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 likely | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 likely | cop |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 likely | advmod |
| 9 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 imagine | mark |
| 11 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 likely | xcomp |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 imagine | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 feel | cop |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 feel | advmod |
| 17 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shapes | amod |
| 18 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sounds | cc |
| 20 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shapes | conj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 likely | parataxis |
| 22 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feel | xcomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feel | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | our brains | the dark | likely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | imagine | to-infinitive | our brains not said here | danger | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot danger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | night | feel, scary property | tree rules |
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:14.
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 ×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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