Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 9

Sad films work the same way: a sad ending can make you cry or keep you thinking for days, and that is normal.

Who acts: Sad films, sad ending, you, that · What happens: work, make, cry, keep, think, be · To what, where: same way, 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 (Sad films, sad ending, you, 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	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 films	amod
2	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ending	det
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ending	amod
10	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl:relcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	xcomp
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 keep	cc
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cry	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 keep	obj
18	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 keep	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 days	case
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thinking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 normal	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 normal	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 normal	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 normal	cop
25	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 work	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Sad films	the same way			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
2	make	can	a sad ending	you			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	you not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	infinitive	you not said here	you			tree rules
5	think speech: other	gerund	you not said here		day		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	that			normal property	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:9.

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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