Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 17

Locking someone in a dark place "as a joke" is not a joke if they panic; claustrophobia is a fear of small, closed spaces.

Who acts: Locking, videos, claustrophobia · What happens: lock, not be, panic, be, close · To what, where: someone, dark place, joke, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Locking, videos, claustrophobia), 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	Locking	lock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 joke	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Locking	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Locking	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 joke	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 joke	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 joke	det
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Locking	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 joke	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 joke	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 joke	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 panic	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 panic	nsubj
18	panic	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 joke	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 fear	punct
20	claustrophobia	claustrophobia	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fear	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fear	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fear	det
23	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 joke	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 spaces	case
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spaces	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 small	punct
27	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 spaces	amod
28	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fear	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 joke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lock	gerund		someone	a dark place	as a joke	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
2	not be speech: other	present	Locking	a joke			tree rules
3	panic a condition, not said to happen	present	videos = video				vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	claustrophobia	a fear		of small closed spaces	tree rules
5	close	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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