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title: Let's leave the landing light on tonight, and next time you can just… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics
description: Let's leave the landing light on tonight, and next time you can just say it's not for you." Who acts: you, 's, light. 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 of every clause.
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# Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 8

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Let's leave the landing light on tonight, and next time you can just say it's not for you."

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**Who acts:** you, 's, light · **What happens:** let, leave, say, not be · **To what, where:** 's, landing light · **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 (you, 's, light), 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:8
# text = Let's leave the landing light on tonight, and next time you can just say it's not for you."
# 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	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	's	us	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | 's *not said here* | the landing light |  |  | tonight |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | light |  |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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