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title: The next day he faked a tummy ache, and for two weeks he took long s… — Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that… · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day he faked a tummy ache, and for two weeks he took long secret detours that made him feel hunted; the fear was real and sensible, because being chased is real danger, but hiding it alone made it grow. Who acts: Kai, long secret detours, fear, hiding. A sentence of the lesson «Chased, trap
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# Chased, trapped, frightened: scary moments that come back at night, sentence 3

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The next day he faked a tummy ache, and for two weeks he took long secret detours that made him feel hunted; the fear was real and sensible, because being chased is real danger, but hiding it alone made it grow.

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**Who acts:** Kai, long secret detours, fear, hiding · **What happens:** fake, take, make, feel, hunt, be · **To what, where:** tummy ache, long secret detours, Kai, real danger, fear

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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 (Kai, long secret detours, fear, hiding), 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:3
# text = The next day he faked a tummy ache, and for two weeks he took long secret detours that made him feel hunted; the fear was real and sensible, because being chased is real danger, but hiding it alone made it grow.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	faked	fake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	detours	detour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:nsubj
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **fake** | past | Kai | a tummy ache |  |  | day |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Kai | long secret detours |  |  | week |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detour=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | long secret detours | Kai |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **hunt** | participle | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the fear |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | the fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **chase** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme» |
| 9 | **is a** | present | the fear *not said here* | real danger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **hide** | gerund |  | fear |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 11 | **make** | past | hiding | fear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **grow** | infinitive | fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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