How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing, sentence 14

Films often use one city to pretend to be another, because filming there is cheaper or easier, and the crew change street signs so it looks like the right city.

Who acts: Films, filming, crew, film · What happens: use, pretend, film, be, change, look · To what, where: one city, street signs

This is a sentence of the lesson «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» of the arts 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, filming, crew, 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	Films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 city	nummod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pretend	mark
7	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 another	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 another	cop
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 pretend	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 filming	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 cheaper	mark
13	filming	film	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cheaper	csubj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 filming	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cheaper	cop
16	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 use	advcl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 easier	cc
18	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 cheaper	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 change	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 signs	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 crew	det
22	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 change	nsubj
23	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	conj
24	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 signs	compound
25	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 change	obj
26	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 looks	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looks	nsubj
28	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 change	advcl
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 city	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 city	det
31	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 city	amod
32	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looks	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present	Films	one city		often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient
2	pretend	to-infinitive	Films not said here				tree rules
3	film	gerund			there		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	filming			cheap property	tree rules
5	be		filming not said here				tree rules
6	change	present	the crew	street signs			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient
7	look	present	film			like the right city	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:arts:022-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing.lesson:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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