Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 13

A seizure is a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain that can make the body shake; epilepsy is a condition that can cause seizures, and people usually recover afterwards.

Who acts: seizure, brain, body, epilepsy, condition, people · What happens: be, make, shake, cause, recover · To what, where: sudden burst, body, condition, seizures

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 (seizure, brain, body, epilepsy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seizure	det
2	seizure	seizure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burst	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burst	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 burst	det
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 burst	amod
6	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 activity	case
8	electrical	electrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 activity	amod
9	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burst	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 brain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brain	det
12	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 activity	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 make	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 brain	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 body	det
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 epilepsy	punct
20	epilepsy	epilepsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 condition	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 condition	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 condition	det
23	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burst	parataxis
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 cause	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cause	aux
26	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 condition	acl:relcl
27	seizures	seizure	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cause	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 recover	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 recover	cc
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 recover	nsubj
31	usually	usually	ADV	_	32 recover	advmod
32	recover	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 condition	conj
33	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	32 recover	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 burst	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a seizure	a sudden burst	of electrical activity in the brain	tree rules
2	make	can	the brain	the body		tree rules
3	shake	infinitive	the body not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	epilepsy	a condition		tree rules
5	cause	can	a condition	seizures		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition seizure=Patient
6	recover	present	people		afterwards, usually property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:13.

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): 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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