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title: Picture a sleepover: everyone says a horror film "isn't even that sc… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a sleepover: everyone says a horror film "isn't even that scary", then one friend cannot sleep for three nights; scary pictures can stick in the mind, and saying no is allowed. Who acts: you, everyone, horror film, one friend. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing w
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# Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 2

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Picture a sleepover: everyone says a horror film "isn't even that scary", then one friend cannot sleep for three nights; scary pictures can stick in the mind, and saying no is allowed.

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**Who acts:** you, everyone, horror film, one friend, scary pictures, saying · **What happens:** picture, say, not be, not sleep, stick, allow · **To what, where:** sleepover, mind, no · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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, everyone, horror film, one friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:2
# text = Picture a sleepover: everyone says a horror film "isn't even that scary", then one friend cannot sleep for three nights; scary pictures can stick in the mind, and saying no is allowed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem
15	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=31:punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	csubj:pass	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	obj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
41	.	.	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a sleepover |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sleepover=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | a horror film |  |  |  |  | scary, that *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **sleep** | can | one friend |  |  |  | then; night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stick** | can | scary pictures |  |  | the mind |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mind=Destination |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | no |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 7 | **allow** | present · passive | saying |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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