--- title: There is no monster under the bed; teasing a little child with scary… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics description: There is no monster under the bed; teasing a little child with scary stories can really frighten them. Who acts: monster, teasing. A sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/18/) [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/) / [I was wrong: changing your mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/) / 18 # I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 18 There is no monster under the bed; teasing a little child with scary stories can really frighten them. **Who acts:** monster, teasing · **What happens:** be, tease, frighten · **To what, where:** little child, children This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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, teasing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:18 # text = There is no monster under the bed; teasing a little child with scary stories can really frighten them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.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 ×1 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 4 det _ _ 4 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 frighten frighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **be** | present | no monster under the bed | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tease** | gerund | | a little child | | | | with scary stories | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 3 | **frighten** | can | teasing | children *= child* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | 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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:18`. **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 ×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: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/17/) - next →: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/)