Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 5
Staring at your face in a mirror in dim light can make it seem to warp or change into a stranger's; scientists have studied this effect, and it happens in your brain.
Who acts: Staring, face, scientists, it · What happens: stare, make, seem, warp, change, study · To what, where: face, stranger, effect, brain
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 (Staring, face, scientists, it), 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 | Staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 make | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 face | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Staring | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mirror | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mirror | det |
| 7 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Staring | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 light | case |
| 9 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mirror | nmod |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 warp | mark |
| 16 | warp | warp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seem | xcomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 change | cc |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 warp | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 stranger | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | obj |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 stranger | case |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 studied | punct |
| 24 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 studied | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 studied | aux |
| 26 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 make | parataxis |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 effect | det |
| 28 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 studied | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 happens | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 happens | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 happens | nsubj |
| 32 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 studied | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 brain | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 brain | nmod:poss |
| 35 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 happens | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | 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 | stare | gerund | in a mirror in dim light; at your face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | can | Staring | face | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seem | infinitive | face not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | warp | to-infinitive | face not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | change | infinitive | face not said here | a stranger | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient | ||||
| 6 | study | present · perfect | scientists | this effect | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic | ||||
| 7 | happen | present | it | your brain | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in brain=Location |
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:5.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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