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title: Nightmares can feel very real, but they are only dreams and cannot h… — Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark · tree and pragmatics
description: Nightmares can feel very real, but they are only dreams and cannot hurt you; turning on a light, going to a parent, calm music and imagining a better ending all help, and monsters under the bed are not real. Who acts: Nightmares, monsters. A sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmar
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# Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 3

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Nightmares can feel very real, but they are only dreams and cannot hurt you; turning on a light, going to a parent, calm music and imagining a better ending all help, and monsters under the bed are not real.

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**Who acts:** Nightmares, monsters · **What happens:** feel, be, not hurt, turn, go, imagine · **To what, where:** dreams, you, light, 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 (Nightmares, monsters), 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:3
# text = Nightmares can feel very real, but they are only dreams and cannot hurt you; turning on a light, going to a parent, calm music and imagining a better ending all help, and monsters under the bed are not real.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	imagining	imagine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det
33	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	parataxis	_	_
34	ending	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
36	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
40	under	under	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **feel** | can | Nightmares |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Nightmares *= nightmare* | dreams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **hurt** | can | Nightmares *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | gerund | Nightmares *not said here* |  |  | a light |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on light=Trajectory |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | Nightmares *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a parent and calm music | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to parent=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **imagine** | gerund | Nightmares *not said here* | a ending |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot end=Theme |
| 7 | **help** | present | Nightmares *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **is** | present | monsters under the bed |  |  |  |  | real *property* | 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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:3`.

**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, 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.

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