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title: Drawing a repeated nightmare and imagining a better ending can stop… — Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark · tree and pragmatics
description: Drawing a repeated nightmare and imagining a better ending can stop it coming back. Who acts: Drawing. A sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 13

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Drawing a repeated nightmare and imagining a better ending can stop it coming back.

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**Who acts:** Drawing · **What happens:** draw, repeat, imagine, stop, come back · **To what, where:** repeated nightmare, better ending, ending

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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 (Drawing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:13
# text = Drawing a repeated nightmare and imagining a better ending can stop it coming back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.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	Drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	imagining	imagine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **draw** | gerund |  | a repeated nightmare |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightmare=Theme |
| 2 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **imagine** | gerund |  | a better ending |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ending=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | can | Drawing | ending |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come back** | gerund | Drawing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:13`.

**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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