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title: And it takes courage to say «that game scared me» — more courage tha… — Nightmares after a scary game · tree and pragmatics
description: And it takes courage to say «that game scared me» — more courage than pretending. Who acts: game. A sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 22

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And it takes courage to say «that game scared me» — more courage than pretending.

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**Who acts:** game · **What happens:** take, say, scare, pretend · **To what, where:** adult, me · **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 (game), 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:22
# text = And it takes courage to say «that game scared me» — more courage than pretending.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **take** | present |  | adult |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **scare** *in a quote* | past | that game | me |  |  |  | more courage *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pretend** | gerund | that game *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:22`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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