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title: Scary films can cause bad dreams, especially for young children; tal… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scary films can cause bad dreams, especially for young children; talking about it, watching something funny after and remembering it is made up all help. Who acts: Scary films. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts course of Mova's primary school 
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# Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 8

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Scary films can cause bad dreams, especially for young children; talking about it, watching something funny after and remembering it is made up all help.

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**Who acts:** Scary films · **What happens:** cause, talk, watch, remember, make up · **To what, where:** bad dreams, something, word

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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 (Scary films), 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:8
# text = Scary films can cause bad dreams, especially for young children; talking about it, watching something funny after and remembering it is made up all help.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	after	after	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cause** | can | Scary films | bad dreams |  |  |  | for young children | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition dream=Patient |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about word | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  | after *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 4 | **remember** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make up** | present · passive |  | word |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:8`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

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

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