Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 23

Old black-and-white films were made before colour film was common; many are still loved and are worth watching with someone who remembers them.

Who acts: colour film · What happens: make, be, love, watch, remember · To what, where: white films, many, Films

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 (colour film), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 films	root
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 films	conj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 and	punct
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 films	amod
7	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 common	mark
11	colour	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 film	amod
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 common	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 common	cop
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 loved	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 loved	aux:pass
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 loved	advmod
19	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 made	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 worth	cc
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 worth	cop
22	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 loved	conj
23	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 worth	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 someone	case
25	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 watching	obl
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 remembers	nsubj
27	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 someone	acl:relcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remembers	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		white films			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is	past	colour film			common property	tree rules
3	love	present · passive		many	still		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	is	present				worth property	tree rules
5	watch	gerund				with someone	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	remember	present		Films = film			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=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:23.

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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