--- title: If something scary on a phone keeps giving you bad dreams, telling a… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: If something scary on a phone keeps giving you bad dreams, telling a grown-up is the right thing; the friend who showed it usually does not get into big trouble. Who acts: something, telling, friend. 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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 (something, telling, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:17 # text = If something scary on a phone keeps giving you bad dreams, telling a grown-up is the right thing; the friend who showed it usually does not get into big trouble. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 3 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 8 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 usually usually ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | gerund | something *not said here* | bad dreams | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dream=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | a grown up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | telling | the right thing and the friend | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **show** | past | the friend | up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 7 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | the friend *not said here* | | | big trouble | | usually *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | 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:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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. 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