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title: Many sleepover tales, like the hook-handed man or the calls "from in… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Many sleepover tales, like the hook-handed man or the calls "from inside the house", are old urban legends told for decades and even made into films. Who acts: Many sleepover tales. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 3

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Many sleepover tales, like the hook-handed man or the calls "from inside the house", are old urban legends told for decades and even made into films.

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**Who acts:** Many sleepover tales · **What happens:** be, tell, make · **To what, where:** old urban legends, films · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many sleepover tales), 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:3
# text = Many sleepover tales, like the hook-handed man or the calls "from inside the house", are old urban legends told for decades and even made into films.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	handed	hand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Many sleepover tales like the handed man or the calls from the house | old urban legends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | old urban legends *not said here* |  |  | decade |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  | films |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into film=Product |

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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:3`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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