--- title: Making up a scary story as if it were true can frighten people badly… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Making up a scary story as if it were true can frighten people badly; saying «this is made up» first keeps it fun. Who acts: trust, saying. 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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 (trust, saying), 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:27 # text = Making up a scary story as if it were true can frighten people badly; saying «this is made up» first keeps it fun. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 frighten frighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 csubj _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 advmod _ _ 24 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | gerund | | a scary story | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot | | 2 | **is** | past | trust | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **frighten** | can | | people | | | | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **make up** *in a quote* | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | | 6 | **keep** | present | saying | trust | | | | first, fun *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:27`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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. 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