--- title: She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak. Who acts: Freya, girls. 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 pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Scary films, nightmares and sad endings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/) / 5 # Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 5 She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak. **Who acts:** Freya, girls · **What happens:** whisper, watch, lie, listen · **To what, where:** mum, scary film · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Freya, girls), 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:5 # text = She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 till till ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 creak creak NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Freya | | Freya's mum | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **watch** | past | the girls | a scary film | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme | | 3 | **lie** | past | Freya | | | | till three | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **listen** | gerund | Freya *not said here* | | | | | to every creak | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to creak=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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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