--- title: Scary pictures stick because the brain is built to remember danger —… — Nightmares after a scary game · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Scary pictures, brain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scary pictures, brain), 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:19 # text = 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. # 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 ×2 1 Scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 — - PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 easily easily ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 23 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick** | present | Scary pictures | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **build** | present · passive | | the brain | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | | danger | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent danger=Theme | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | brain | a scene | | a screen | | from a real threat at night; easily *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scene=Recipient | 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. **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:19`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Nightmares after a scary game, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/18/) - next →: [Nightmares after a scary game, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/)