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title: Spooky stories are fun because your brain is a brilliant pattern-fin… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Spooky stories are fun because your brain is a brilliant pattern-finder: in the dark it turns a coat into a figure, a creak into footsteps, and a tired face in a mirror into a stranger. Who acts: Spooky stories, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of M
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# Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 1

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Spooky stories are fun because your brain is a brilliant pattern-finder: in the dark it turns a coat into a figure, a creak into footsteps, and a tired face in a mirror into a stranger.

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**Who acts:** Spooky stories, brain · **What happens:** be, turn · **To what, where:** brilliant pattern finder, coat

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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 (Spooky stories, brain), 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:1
# text = Spooky stories are fun because your brain is a brilliant pattern-finder: in the dark it turns a coat into a figure, a creak into footsteps, and a tired face in a mirror into a stranger.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spooky	spooky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	finder	finder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	creak	creak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Spooky stories |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your brain | a brilliant pattern finder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | present | brain | a coat |  |  |  | into a figure; in the dark | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Patient in dark=Topic into figure=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:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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