Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 0
Some scary moments come back at night like a film you can't switch off: the shout, the smoke, the bang, played again in the dark with a "what if" stuck on the end.
Who acts: scary moments, you, bang · What happens: come back, not switch off, play, stick · To what, where: film, dark, end
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» of the reflection 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 (scary moments, you, bang), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 moments | det |
| 2 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moments | amod |
| 3 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 film | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 film | det |
| 10 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 switch | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 switch | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 switch | advmod |
| 14 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 film | acl:relcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 switch | compound:prt |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 shout | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shout | det |
| 18 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 film | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 smoke | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 smoke | det |
| 21 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shout | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bang | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bang | det |
| 24 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shout | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 played | punct |
| 26 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bang | acl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 played | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 dark | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dark | det |
| 30 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 played | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 what | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 what | det |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 what | punct |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 played | obl |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 stuck | mark |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 stuck | punct |
| 37 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 what | acl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 end | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 end | det |
| 40 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stuck | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | some scary moments | night | like a film | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not switch off | can | you | a film not said here | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play | past | the bang not said here | the dark | again | with the bang | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with what=Theme | ||
| 4 | stick a condition, not said to happen | participle | on the end | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on end=Destination |
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:reflection:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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