Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 14

Scary music is used to build suspense: it tells you something might happen before anything does.

Who acts: music, something, anything · What happens: use, build, tell, happen, do · To what, where: Scary music, suspense, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (music, something, anything), 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	Scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 music	amod
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 build	mark
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 build	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 tells	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tells	iobj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 happen	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tells	ccomp
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 does	mark
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 does	nsubj
17	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	use	present · passive		Scary music		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	build	to-infinitive		suspense		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suspense=Product
3	tell speech: assert	present	music		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	might	something			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	present	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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): no change. 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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