--- title: A seizure is a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain that… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics description: A seizure is a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain that can make the body shake; epilepsy is a condition that can cause seizures, and people usually recover afterwards. Who acts: seizure, brain, body, epilepsy. 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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 (seizure, brain, body, epilepsy), 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:13 # text = A seizure is a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain that can make the body shake; epilepsy is a condition that can cause seizures, and people usually recover afterwards. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 seizure seizure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 electrical electrical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 activity activity NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 epilepsy epilepsy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 seizures seizure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 recover recover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a seizure | a sudden burst | | | | of electrical activity in the brain | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | can | the brain | the body | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shake** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | epilepsy | a condition | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cause** | can | a condition | seizures | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition seizure=Patient | | 6 | **recover** | present | people | | | | | afterwards, usually *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:007-chased-trapped-frightened-scary-moments-that-come-back-at-night.lesson:13`. **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): 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. 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