Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 10

Grown-ups choose films by asking two questions: is it right for my age, and am I in the mood for this feeling tonight?

Who acts: Grown ups, ending, I · What happens: grow, choose, ask, be · To what, where: films, two questions, mood

This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life 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 (Grown ups, ending, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choose	nsubj
4	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choose	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 choose	advcl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 questions	nummod
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asking	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 right	nsubj
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 asking	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 age	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 age	nmod:poss
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mood	cc
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mood	cop
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 mood	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 mood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mood	det
23	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 feeling	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 feeling	det
26	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mood	nmod
27	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mood	obl:unmarked
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 choose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose	present	Grown ups	films				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	Grown ups not said here	two questions				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
4	is	present	ending			for my age	right property	tree rules
5	is	present	I		the mood	tonight	for this feeling	tree rules

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, 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:adult-life:056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.lesson:10.

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 ×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.

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