--- title: Nightmares are common in children and do not predict anything; scary… — Sleep and dreams in people · tree and pragmatics description: Nightmares are common in children and do not predict anything; scary films, stress or illness make them more likely, and imagining a new happy ending while awake often helps. Who acts: Nightmares, scary films, imagining. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nightmares, scary films, imagining), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people.lesson:10 # text = Nightmares are common in children and do not predict anything; scary films, stress or illness make them more likely, and imagining a new happy ending while awake often helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nightmares nightmare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 predict predict VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stress stress NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 21 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 imagining imagine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 csubj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advcl _ _ 31 often often ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Nightmares | | | | | in children; common *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **predict** | present · do-support | Nightmares *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Topic | | 3 | **make** | present | scary films and stress or illness | nightmares *= nightmare* | | | | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 4 | **imagine** | gerund | | a new happy ending | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ending=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | imagining | | | | | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Sleep and dreams in people, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/9/) - next →: [Sleep and dreams in people, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/)