Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 18
Some films are made to look like real news or real recordings, but they are still stories; a real alien landing would be on every proper news channel.
Who acts: films, real alien landing · What happens: make, look, be · To what, where: films, stories, proper news channel
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 (films, real alien landing), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 films | det |
| 2 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 news | case |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 news | amod |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 recordings | cc |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 recordings | amod |
| 12 | recordings | recording | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 news | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stories | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 stories | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stories | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stories | cop |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 stories | advmod |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 channel | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 landing | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 landing | amod |
| 22 | alien | alien | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 landing | amod |
| 23 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 channel | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 channel | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 channel | cop |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 channel | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 channel | det |
| 28 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 channel | amod |
| 29 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 channel | compound |
| 30 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | some films | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | some films not said here | like real news or real recordings | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Films = film | stories | still | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | would | a real alien landing | every proper news channel | 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:18.
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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