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title: There is no good evidence that putting a sleeping person's hand in w… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no good evidence that putting a sleeping person's hand in warm water makes them wet themselves, and pranks on sleeping friends are unkind. Who acts: good evidence, putting, pranks. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 8

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There is no good evidence that putting a sleeping person's hand in warm water makes them wet themselves, and pranks on sleeping friends are unkind.

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**Who acts:** good evidence, putting, pranks · **What happens:** be, put, make, sleep · **To what, where:** hand, warm water, walls

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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 (good evidence, putting, pranks), 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:8
# text = There is no good evidence that putting a sleeping person's hand in warm water makes them wet themselves, and pranks on sleeping friends are unkind.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
7	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
9	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	amod	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no good evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | gerund |  | a sleeping person's hand |  | warm water |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in water=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | present | putting | walls *= wall* |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 4 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | pranks on sleeping friends |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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