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title: They agreed on a plan: no screens in the hour before bed, a funny au… — Nightmares after a scary game · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: », bad dream, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 18

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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.

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**Who acts:** », bad dream, mum · **What happens:** agree, come, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» 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 (», bad dream, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:18
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.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
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	audiobook	audiobook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | » |  |  |  |  | on a plan | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on plan=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a bad dream |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | could | mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with no teasing | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with teasing=Manner |

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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:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:18`.

**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. **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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