Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 21
Some films are slow on purpose; grown-ups may love a quiet film that children find boring, and that is a difference in taste, not a fault.
Who acts: films, grown ups, children, that · What happens: be, grow, love, find · To what, where: purpose, quiet film, difference, taste
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, grown ups, children, that), 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 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | cop |
| 4 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 purpose | case |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slow | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 slow | punct |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ups | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 grown | punct |
| 10 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 love | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slow | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 film | det |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 film | amod |
| 15 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 find | obj |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 find | nsubj |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 film | acl:relcl |
| 19 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 find | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 difference | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 difference | cc |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 difference | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 difference | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 difference | det |
| 25 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 taste | case |
| 27 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 difference | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fault | punct |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 fault | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fault | det |
| 31 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 difference | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some films | purpose | slow property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | love | may | grown ups | a quiet film | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | find | present | children | a quiet film | boring property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a | present | that | a difference | taste | 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:21.
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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