Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 15

A jump scare is a sudden picture or loud sound meant to make you jump; it works even in cartoons and even when you know it is coming.

Who acts: jump scare, you, scare · What happens: be, mean, make, jump, work, know · To what, where: sudden picture · 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 (jump scare, you, scare), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 scare	det
2	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scare	compound
3	scare	scare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picture	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 picture	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 picture	det
6	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 picture	amod
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 sound	cc
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sound	amod
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picture	conj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 picture	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meant	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 jump	nsubj
15	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 works	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 works	nsubj
18	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 picture	parataxis
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 cartoons	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 cartoons	case
21	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 works	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 know	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 know	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 works	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 coming	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 coming	aux
29	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 know	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a jump scare	a sudden picture or loud sound		tree rules
2	mean	participle		a sudden picture or loud sound not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive				tree rules
4	jump not said to happen	infinitive	you			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	work	present	scare		in cartoons	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Theme
6	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	come	present · progressive	scare			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:15.

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, 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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