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title: Kieran picks a horror film rated 15; Connor has nightmares for a wee… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran picks a horror film rated 15; Connor has nightmares for a week and won't admit it, until his mum phones Kieran's mum. Who acts: Kieran, horror film, Connor, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 20

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Kieran picks a horror film rated 15; Connor has nightmares for a week and won't admit it, until his mum phones Kieran's mum.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, horror film, Connor, mum · **What happens:** pick, rate, have, not admit, phone · **To what, where:** horror film, 15, nightmares, film, mum

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 (Kieran, horror film, Connor, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:20
# text = Kieran picks a horror film rated 15; Connor has nightmares for a week and won't admit it, until his mum phones Kieran's mum.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	rated	rate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
9	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
11	nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	phones	phone	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **pick** | present | Kieran | a horror film |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Patient |
| 2 | **rate** | participle | a horror film *not said here* | 15 |  |  |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 15=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | Connor | nightmares |  |  | week |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightmare=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **admit** *speech: other* | future | Connor *not said here* | film |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **phone** | present | Connor's mum |  | Kieran's mum |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |

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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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:20`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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