--- title: Hiding behind a cushion or switching off halfway is a sensible choic… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Hiding behind a cushion or switching off halfway is a sensible choice, not cowardice; being brave means doing what is right for you, not proving something. Who acts: Hiding. 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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 (Hiding), 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:17 # text = Hiding behind a cushion or switching off halfway is a sensible choice, not cowardice; being brave means doing what is right for you, not proving something. # 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 Hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 behind behind ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cushion cushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 switching switch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 cowardice cowardice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 csubj _ _ 19 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 20 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 proving prove VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 conj _ _ 29 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | gerund | | | | a cushion | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind cushion=Location | | 2 | **switch off** | gerund | | | | | | halfway *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | Hiding | a sensible choice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **means** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | | for you; right *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **prove** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.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): no change. **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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