--- title: Staring at your face in a mirror in dim light can make it seem to wa… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics description: Staring at your face in a mirror in dim light can make it seem to warp or change into a stranger's; scientists have studied this effect, and it happens in your brain. Who acts: Staring, face, scientists, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Staring, face, scientists, it), 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:5 # text = Staring at your face in a mirror in dim light can make it seem to warp or change into a stranger's; scientists have studied this effect, and it happens in your brain. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 warp warp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 parataxis _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | in a mirror in dim light; at your face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | | 2 | **make** | can | Staring | face | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | infinitive | face *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **warp** | to-infinitive | face *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **change** | infinitive | face *not said here* | a stranger | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient | | 6 | **study** | present · perfect | scientists | this effect | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic | | 7 | **happen** | present | it | | | your brain | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in brain=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:5`. **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 ×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: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/4/) - next →: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/)