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title: Part of your brain knows you are safe on the sofa, and that mix is w… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics
description: Part of your brain knows you are safe on the sofa, and that mix is why some people enjoy it and others really don't. Who acts: Part, you, mix, people. A sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 3

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Part of your brain knows you are safe on the sofa, and that mix is why some people enjoy it and others really don't.

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**Who acts:** Part, you, mix, people · **What happens:** know, be, enjoy · **To what, where:** sofa, mix · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life 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 (Part, you, mix, people), 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:3
# text = Part of your brain knows you are safe on the sofa, and that mix is why some people enjoy it and others really don't.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Part of your brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  | the sofa |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that mix |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** | present | some people | mix |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×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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