--- title: Nightmares after a scary game — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Nightmares after a scary game», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Two nights after Mortal Kombat at Theo's, Leo woke at 3 a.m. absolutely certain a skeleton was under his bed. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Nightmares after a scary game # Nightmares after a scary game Lesson 402 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/0/) — Two nights after Mortal Kombat at Theo's, Leo woke at 3 a.m. absolutely certain a skeleton was under his bed. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/1/) — He lay stiff as a plank for an hour, then sprinted to his parents' room so fast he hit the door frame. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/4/) — Can I see the scary game?» «NO,» said Leo, a bit too loudly. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/5/) — Leo wasn't the only one. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/6/) — Kai slept with the hall light on for a whole week after a game at his older cousin's. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/7/) — Ruby kept seeing one particular scene every time she switched off her lamp. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/8/) — Noah made it worse by watching a scary game clip on his tablet in bed — the last thing in his head before sleep was a monster, so that's what his brain played all night. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/9/) — Zara said loudly she «wasn't scared AT ALL» — and checked behind her bedroom door twice before getting into bed. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/10/) — Then there was Jayden, who laughed through the scary game while everyone else went pale. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/11/) — Nobody knew if he was really fine or just good at hiding it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/12/) — And Ollie got a stomach ache every single time Theo said, «Shall we play the scary one again?» That's not a coincidence: worry often shows up in the tummy before you even notice it in your head. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/13/) — Priya's mum noticed something odd: Priya was drawing monsters in every margin of her homework. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/14/) — She didn't tell her off. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/16/) — Where did they come from?» Out it all came — the clip, the dreams, the light. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/17/) — Just saying it out loud made it smaller. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/18/) — They agreed on a plan: no screens in the hour before bed, a funny audiobook instead, and if a bad dream came, she could come and say so with no teasing. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/19/) — Scary pictures stick because the brain is built to remember danger — it can't easily tell a scene on a screen from a real threat at night. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/20/) — That isn't weakness; it's how brains work. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/21/) — What helps is calm time before bed, talking about it with an adult, and remembering that it was made by artists and actors. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/22/) — And it takes courage to say «that game scared me» — more courage than pretending. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/23/) — Frightening pictures and scenes often come back in dreams or when the lights go off. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/24/) — The brain remembers frightening things strongly because noticing danger helped people survive. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/25/) — Watching something scary just before sleep makes bad dreams more likely. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/26/) — Many experts advise no screens for about an hour before bed. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/27/) — Worry and fear can cause a stomach ache or trouble sleeping. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/28/) — People who say they are not scared at all are sometimes hiding their fear. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/29/) — Talking about a frightening picture with a trusted adult usually makes it feel smaller. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/30/) — Monsters in games are made by artists, actors and computers, and are not real. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/31/) — Younger children are more easily frightened by scary images, which is one reason games have age ratings. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/32/) — It is normal and not babyish to be scared by a scary game, at any age. - ← previous: [Fighting games at a friend's house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/) - next →: [Copying game moves on a little brother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)