Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 2

Stare at your own face in dim light for a minute and it can seem to warp and change; that is your brain filling gaps, not a ghost, and scientists have studied it.

Who acts: you, it, that, brain, scientists · What happens: stare, seem, warp, change, be, fill · To what, where: brain, gaps

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 (you, it, that, 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	Stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 face	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 face	amod
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stare	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stare	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 minute	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 minute	det
11	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stare	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seem	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seem	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 seem	aux
15	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stare	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 warp	mark
17	warp	warp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seem	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 change	cc
19	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 warp	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 brain	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 brain	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 brain	cop
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brain	nmod:poss
24	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stare	obl
25	filling	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 brain	acl
26	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 filling	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ghost	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 ghost	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ghost	det
30	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gaps	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 studied	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 studied	cc
33	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 studied	nsubj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 studied	aux
35	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Stare	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 studied	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stare	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stare	imperative	you not said here		minute	in dim light; at your own face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
2	seem	can	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	warp	to-infinitive					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	change	infinitive					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	that	your brain			tree rules
6	fill	gerund	your brain not said here	gaps a ghost			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient
7	study	present · perfect	scientists	brain			vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:2.

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, 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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