Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 3

Many sleepover tales, like the hook-handed man or the calls "from inside the house", are old urban legends told for decades and even made into films.

Who acts: Many sleepover tales · What happens: be, tell, make · To what, where: old urban legends, films · 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 (Many sleepover tales), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tales	amod
2	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tales	compound
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 legends	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tales	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	10 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
7	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 handed	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hook	punct
9	handed	hand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tales	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 calls	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 calls	det
13	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 man	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 house	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calls	nmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 house	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 legends	punct
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 legends	cop
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 legends	amod
23	urban	urban	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 legends	amod
24	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
25	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 legends	acl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 decades	case
27	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 made	advmod
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 told	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 films	case
32	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 made	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 legends	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Many sleepover tales like the handed man or the calls from the house	old urban legends			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		old urban legends not said here		decade	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	participle			films		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into film=Product

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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