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title: A girl in Christchurch has the same dream about a wolf every week; s… — Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Christchurch has the same dream about a wolf every week; she draws it, then draws the wolf turning into a friendly dog that walks her home, and the nightmare stops coming back. Who acts: girl, wolf, friendly dog, nightmare. A sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and
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# Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 4

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A girl in Christchurch has the same dream about a wolf every week; she draws it, then draws the wolf turning into a friendly dog that walks her home, and the nightmare stops coming back.

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**Who acts:** girl, wolf, friendly dog, nightmare · **What happens:** have, draw, turn, walk, stop, come back · **To what, where:** same dream, wolf, home

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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 (girl, wolf, friendly dog, nightmare), 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:4
# text = A girl in Christchurch has the same dream about a wolf every week; she draws it, then draws the wolf turning into a friendly dog that walks her home, and the nightmare stops 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Christchurch	Christchurch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
37	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a girl in Christchurch | the same dream |  |  | week | about a wolf | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | present | girl | wolf |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | present | girl *not said here* | the wolf |  |  | then |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | gerund | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a friendly dog *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dog=Result |
| 5 | **walk** | present | a friendly dog | girl's home |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory |
| 6 | **stop** | present | the nightmare |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **come back** | gerund | the nightmare *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:4`.

**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): 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.

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