Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 7

Scratching and creaking at night usually come from mice, branches, wind, cooling pipes or a house settling (its wood and walls shifting a tiny bit) as it cools; turning on a light and looking, or telling an adult, usually solves the mystery.

Who acts: branches, walls, house · What happens: scratch, creak, come, settle, shift, cool · To what, where: wood, tiny bit, light, adult, mystery · 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 (branches, walls, house), 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	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 come	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 creaking	cc
3	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Scratching	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creaking	obl
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 mice	case
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 branches	punct
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mice	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wind	punct
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 branches	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pipes	punct
15	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pipes	compound
16	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wind	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 house	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wind	conj
20	settling	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 branches	acl
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 wood	punct
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wood	nmod:poss
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 settling	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 walls	cc
25	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wood	conj
26	shifting	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 walls	acl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bit	det
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bit	amod
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shifting	obl:unmarked
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 shifting	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 cools	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cools	nsubj
33	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 settling	advcl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 turning	punct
35	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 come	parataxis
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 light	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 light	det
38	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turning	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 looking	cc
40	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 turning	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 telling	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 telling	cc
43	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 turning	conj
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 adult	det
45	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 telling	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 solves	punct
47	usually	usually	ADV	_	48 solves	advmod
48	solves	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 telling	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mystery	det
50	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 solves	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	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	scratch	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	creak	gerund					night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present						from mice and branches; usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mouse=Initial_Location
4	settle	gerund	branches not said here	house's wood and walls					vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shift	gerund	walls not said here	a tiny bit					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	cool	present	house						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	turn	gerund				a light			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on light=Trajectory
8	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	tell speech: assert	gerund			a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
10	solve	present		the mystery				usually property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=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:7.

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, R6-punct-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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