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title: Fairground rides are checked often and are very safe, but a fright l… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairground rides are checked often and are very safe, but a fright like being stuck at the top can stick for weeks. Who acts: fright. A sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 12

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Fairground rides are checked often and are very safe, but a fright like being stuck at the top can stick for weeks.

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**Who acts:** fright · **What happens:** check, be, stick · **To what, where:** Fairground rides, fright, top

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» of the reflection 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 (fright), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:12
# text = Fairground rides are checked often and are very safe, but a fright like being stuck at the top can stick for weeks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.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	Fairground	fairground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rides	ride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | present · passive |  | Fairground rides |  |  |  | often *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stick** | gerund · passive |  | a fright *not said here* |  | the top |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: at top=Destination |
| 4 | **stick** | can | a fright |  |  |  | week |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:reflection:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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