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title: The brain remembers frightening things strongly because noticing dan… — Nightmares after a scary game · tree and pragmatics
description: The brain remembers frightening things strongly because noticing danger helped people survive. Who acts: brain, noticing, people. 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 24

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The brain remembers frightening things strongly because noticing danger helped people survive.

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**Who acts:** brain, noticing, people · **What happens:** remember, notice, help, survive · **To what, where:** frightening things, danger, people

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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 (brain, noticing, people), 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:24
# text = The brain remembers frightening things strongly because noticing danger helped people survive.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **remember** | present | the brain | frightening things |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund |  | danger |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 3 | **help** | past | noticing | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **survive** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:24`.

**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, 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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