--- title: Nightmares after a scary film are common; they fade after a few nigh… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Nightmares after a scary film are common; they fade after a few nights, and talking about the film or leaving a light on helps. Who acts: Nightmares, Films. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nightmares, Films), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.lesson:13 # text = Nightmares after a scary film are common; they fade after a few nights, and talking about the film or leaving a light on helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Nightmares nightmare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 17 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 nsubj _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 26 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Nightmares after a scary film | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fade** | present | Films *= film* | | | | night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about the film | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about film=Topic | | 4 | **leave on** | gerund | | a light | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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