Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 12

Many people enjoy being scared by a film because it is a thrill with no real danger, like a roller coaster; other people simply don't, and both are fine.

Who acts: Many people, film, danger, both · What happens: enjoy, scare, be · To what, where: thrill

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 (Many people, film, danger, both), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enjoy	nsubj
3	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 scared	aux:pass
5	scared	scare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 enjoy	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 film	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 film	det
8	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 thrill	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thrill	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thrill	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thrill	det
13	thrill	thrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoy	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 danger	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 danger	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 danger	amod
17	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrill	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 coaster	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 coaster	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 coaster	det
21	roller	roller	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coaster	compound
22	coaster	coaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrill	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 people	punct
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	nsubj
26	simply	simply	ADV	_	27 do	advmod
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 enjoy	parataxis
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 do	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fine	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fine	cc
31	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 fine	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 fine	cop
33	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enjoy	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enjoy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enjoy	present	Many people			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	scare	gerund · passive	a film			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	danger	a thrill and a roller coaster	with no real danger	tree rules
4	is	present	both		fine property	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:12.

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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