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title: Many scary online videos are hoaxes, fake stories made to frighten k… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many scary online videos are hoaxes, fake stories made to frighten kids and get views; they say things like "your town" to feel real. Who acts: Many scary online videos, videos. A sentence of the lesson «Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night» of the reflection course of 
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# Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 16

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Many scary online videos are hoaxes, fake stories made to frighten kids and get views; they say things like "your town" to feel real.

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**Who acts:** Many scary online videos, videos · **What happens:** be, make, frighten, get, say, feel · **To what, where:** hoaxes, fake stories, kids, views, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many scary online videos, videos), 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:16
# text = Many scary online videos are hoaxes, fake stories made to frighten kids and get views; they say things like "your town" to feel real.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	hoaxes	hoax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Many scary online videos | hoaxes and fake stories |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | fake stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **frighten** | to-infinitive |  | kids |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kid=Experiencer |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  | views |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | videos *= video* | things |  |  |  | like your town | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 6 | **feel** | to-infinitive | videos *= video* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-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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