Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 19

"Based on a true story" means the film starts from something real, but film makers change, add and invent a lot to make it exciting.

Who acts: film, film makers · What happens: base, mean, start, change, add, invent · To what, where: true story, something, lot, landing · 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 (film, film makers), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
2	Based	base	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 means	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 story	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Based	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 starts	nsubj
11	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 something	case
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 starts	obl
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 something	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 change	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 change	cc
17	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 makers	compound
18	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 change	nsubj
19	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 add	punct
21	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 change	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 invent	cc
23	invent	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 change	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lot	det
25	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 invent	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 invent	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 make	obj
29	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 make	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	base in a quote	participle			a true story		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on story=Source
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start	present	the film		something		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	change	present	film makers				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	add speech: assert	present	film makers not said here				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	invent	present	film makers not said here	a lot			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Result
7	make	to-infinitive	film makers not said here	landing		exciting property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:19.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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