--- title: Noah made it worse by watching a scary game clip on his tablet in be… — Nightmares after a scary game · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Noah, last thing, that, 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 (Noah, last thing, that, 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:8 # text = 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. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 — - PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 before before ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Noah | lamp | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | Noah *not said here* | a scary game clip | | Noah's tablet in bed | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | the last thing in Noah's head | a monster | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **play** | past | Noah's brain | | | | night | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Nightmares after a scary game, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/7/) - next →: [Nightmares after a scary game, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/)