--- title: Stare at your own face in dim light for a minute and it can seem to… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics description: Stare at your own face in dim light for a minute and it can seem to warp and change; that is your brain filling gaps, not a ghost, and scientists have studied it. Who acts: you, it, that, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Sleepovers and spooky stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/) / 2 # Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 2 Stare at your own face in dim light for a minute and it can seem to warp and change; that is your brain filling gaps, not a ghost, and scientists have studied it. **Who acts:** you, it, that, brain, scientists · **What happens:** stare, seem, warp, change, be, fill · **To what, where:** brain, gaps 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 (you, it, that, 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:2 # text = Stare at your own face in dim light for a minute and it can seem to warp and change; that is your brain filling gaps, not a ghost, and scientists have studied it. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stare stare VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 warp warp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 25 filling fill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | minute | in dim light; at your own face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | can | it | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **warp** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **change** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | your brain | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fill** | gerund | your brain *not said here* | gaps a ghost | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | | 7 | **study** | present · perfect | scientists | brain | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/1/) - next →: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/)