Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps, sentence 14

Houses creak as they cool down at night or when the wind blows; creaks are not ghosts.

Who acts: Houses, wind, creaks · What happens: creak, cool down, blow, not be · To what, where: ghosts

This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» of the religion ethics 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 (Houses, wind, creaks), 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	Houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 creak	nsubj
2	creak	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 cool	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cool	nsubj
5	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 creak	advcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 cool	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 blows	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 blows	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blows	nsubj
13	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cool	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ghosts	punct
15	creaks	creak	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ghosts	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ghosts	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 ghosts	advmod
18	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 creak	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 creak	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	creak	present	Houses			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cool down	present	Houses = house		night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	blow	present	the wind			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	not is a	present	creaks	ghosts		tree rules

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:religion-ethics:071-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps.lesson:14.

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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