--- title: Locking someone in a dark place "as a joke" is not a joke if they pa… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics description: Locking someone in a dark place "as a joke" is not a joke if they panic; claustrophobia is a fear of small, closed spaces. Who acts: Locking, videos, claustrophobia. 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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 (Locking, videos, claustrophobia), 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:17 # text = Locking someone in a dark place "as a joke" is not a joke if they panic; claustrophobia is a fear of small, closed spaces. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Locking lock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 panic panic VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 20 claustrophobia claustrophobia 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 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock** | gerund | | someone | | a dark place | | as a joke | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 2 | **not** **be** *speech: other* | present | Locking | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **panic** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | videos *= video* | | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | claustrophobia | a fear | | | | of small closed spaces | tree rules | | 5 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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