I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 18
There is no monster under the bed; teasing a little child with scary stories can really frighten them.
Who acts: monster, teasing · What happens: be, tease, frighten · To what, where: little child, children
This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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 (monster, teasing), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 monster | det |
| 4 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monster | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 teasing | punct |
| 9 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 18 frighten | csubj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 child | amod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 teasing | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 14 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stories | amod |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teasing | obl |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 frighten | aux |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 frighten | advmod |
| 18 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 frighten | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | 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 | be | present | no monster under the bed | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tease | gerund | a little child | with scary stories | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | frighten | can | teasing | children = child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:18.
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 ×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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