--- title: Torch under the chin, someone whispers: "Say Bloody Mary three times… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics description: Torch under the chin, someone whispers: "Say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror in the dark and she appears!" Everyone shrieks and nobody wants to go to the bathroom alone. Who acts: someone, Mary, Everyone. 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Everyone shrieks and nobody wants to go to the bathroom alone. **Who acts:** someone, Mary, Everyone · **What happens:** whisper, say, appear, shriek, want, go · **To what, where:** Bloody Mary, mirror, bathroom · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths 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 (someone, Mary, Everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:0 # text = Torch under the chin, someone whispers: "Say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror in the dark and she appears!" Everyone shrieks and nobody wants to go to the bathroom alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 under under ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 7 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Say Say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 11 Bloody Bloody PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 26 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shrieks shriek VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 30 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bathroom bathroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 alone alone ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: express* | present | someone | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | Bloody Mary | | the mirror | time | in the dark | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent mary=Theme in mirror=Manner | | 3 | **appear** *in a quote* | present | Mary | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shriek** | present | Everyone | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 5 | **want** | present | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | the bathroom | | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bathroom=Initial\_Location | 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:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Viral facts and chain messages, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/17/) - next →: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/)