Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 2

When a film scares you, your body acts as if the danger were real: your heart races, your hands get sweaty, you jump.

Who acts: film, body, danger, heart, hands, you · What happens: scare, act, be, race, get, jump · To what, where: you

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, body, danger, heart), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 scares	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scares	nsubj
4	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 acts	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 scares	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scares	punct
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 acts	nsubj
9	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 real	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 real	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 danger	det
13	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 real	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 real	cop
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 acts	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 races	punct
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 races	nmod:poss
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 races	nsubj
19	races	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 acts	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	nsubj
23	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 acts	conj
24	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 get	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 jump	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 jump	nsubj
27	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 acts	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 acts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scare	present	a film	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
2	act	present	your body			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the danger		real property	tree rules
4	race	present	heart			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	present	your hands		sweaty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	jump	present	you			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:2.

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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