--- title: Lake-monster stories are often told to keep children away from water… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics description: Lake-monster stories are often told to keep children away from water, and deep water really is dangerous: it can be cold, deep and full of weeds, so never swim without an adult. Who acts: monster stories, deep water, water. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 9 Lake-monster stories are often told to keep children away from water, and deep water really is dangerous: it can be cold, deep and full of weeds, so never swim without an adult. **Who acts:** monster stories, deep water, water · **What happens:** tell, keep away, be, not swim · **To what, where:** monster stories, children, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (monster stories, deep water, water), 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:9 # text = Lake-monster stories are often told to keep children away from water, and deep water really is dangerous: it can be cold, deep and full of weeds, so never swim without an adult. # 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 1 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 really really ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 weeds weed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 36 without without ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | monster stories | | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | monster stories *not said here* | | children | water | | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer child=Beneficiary from water=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | deep water | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | can | water | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | water *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | water *not said here* | | | | | of weeds | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **swim** | infinitive | deep water *not said here* | | | | | without a adult | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/8/) - next →: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/)