Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 3
The next day he faked a tummy ache, and for two weeks he took long secret detours that made him feel hunted; the fear was real and sensible, because being chased is real danger, but hiding it alone made it grow.
Who acts: Kai, long secret detours, fear, hiding · What happens: fake, take, make, feel, hunt, be · To what, where: tummy ache, long secret detours, Kai, real danger, fear
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 (Kai, long secret detours, fear, hiding), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 faked | nsubj |
| 5 | faked | fake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ache | det |
| 7 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ache | compound |
| 8 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 weeks | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 weeks | nummod |
| 13 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faked | conj |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 detours | amod |
| 17 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 detours | amod |
| 18 | detours | detour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 detours | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | obj |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | xcomp |
| 23 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 feel | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 faked | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fear | det |
| 26 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 real | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 real | cop |
| 28 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 faked | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sensible | cc |
| 30 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 real | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 chased | punct |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 danger | mark |
| 33 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 chased | aux:pass |
| 34 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 danger | csubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 danger | cop |
| 36 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 danger | amod |
| 37 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 real | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 made | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 made | cc |
| 40 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 made | csubj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 hiding | obj |
| 42 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 40 hiding | advmod |
| 43 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faked | conj |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 made | obj |
| 45 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 made | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 faked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | past | Kai | a tummy ache | day | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | Kai | long secret detours | week | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detour=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | long secret detours | Kai | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | Kai not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hunt | participle | Kai not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the fear | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | the fear not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | chase | gerund · passive | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 9 | is a | present | the fear not said here | real danger | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | hide | gerund | fear | alone property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 11 | make | past | hiding | fear | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | grow | infinitive | fear not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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