Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 22

Rewatching a scary film often makes it less scary, because you know what is coming and your body stops being surprised.

Who acts: Rewatching, you, body · What happens: rewatch, make, know, come, stop, surprise · To what, where: scary film, taste · 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 (Rewatching, you, body), 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	Rewatching	rewatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 film	amod
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rewatching	obj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 makes	advmod
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 scary	advmod
9	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 know	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 coming	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 coming	aux
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 know	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stops	cc
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 body	nmod:poss
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stops	nsubj
20	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	conj
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 surprised	aux:pass
22	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stops	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rewatch	gerund		a scary film		tree rules
2	make	present	Rewatching	taste	often, scary property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come	present · progressive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stop	present	your body			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	surprise	gerund · passive	your body not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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:22.

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 ×1, 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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