--- title: Sophie told a made-up ghost story at a sleepover as if it were true,… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Sophie told a made-up ghost story at a sleepover as if it were true, and at three in the morning one girl was so scared she rang her mum to go home. Who acts: Sophie, sleepover, one girl, girl. 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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 (Sophie, sleepover, one girl, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:13 # text = Sophie told a made-up ghost story at a sleepover as if it were true, and at three in the morning one girl was so scared she rang her mum to go home. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sophie Sophie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=4:compound 7 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sleepover sleepover NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 35 home home ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Sophie | a made ghost story | | a sleepover | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 2 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | sleepover | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | one girl | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ring** | past | girl | girl's mum | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:13`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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. 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