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title: Cuddling a toy, calm music or reading helps the body relax after a b… — Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark · tree and pragmatics
description: Cuddling a toy, calm music or reading helps the body relax after a bad dream. Who acts: Cuddling, body. 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 14

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Cuddling a toy, calm music or reading helps the body relax after a bad dream.

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**Who acts:** Cuddling, body · **What happens:** cuddle, help, relax · **To what, where:** toy, body

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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 (Cuddling, body), 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:14
# text = Cuddling a toy, calm music or reading helps the body relax after a bad dream.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cuddling	cuddle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	relax	relax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **cuddle** | gerund |  | a toy |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **help** | present | Cuddling | the body |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **relax** | infinitive | the body *not said here* |  |  |  | after a bad dream |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:14`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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