How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing, sentence 15

Silent films, from before about 1927, had no recorded talking, so actors used big faces and movements; words were shown on cards and music was often played live in the cinema.

Who acts: Silent films, actors · What happens: have, record, use, show, play · To what, where: recorded talking, big faces, words, cards, music, cinema

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 (Silent films, actors), 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	Silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 films	amod
2	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 films	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 before	case
5	before	before	ADV	_	7 1927	obl
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 1927	advmod
7	1927	1927	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 films	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 films	punct
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 talking	det
11	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 talking	amod
12	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shown	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 used	advmod
15	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	advcl
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 faces	amod
18	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 used	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 movements	cc
20	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faces	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 words	punct
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shown	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shown	aux:pass
24	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 had	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 cards	case
26	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shown	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 played	cc
28	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 played	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 played	aux:pass
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 played	advmod
31	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 shown	conj
32	live	live	ADV	_	31 played	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 cinema	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cinema	det
35	cinema	cinema	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 played	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Silent films 1927	no recorded talking			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talking=Patient
2	record	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	past	actors	big faces and movements			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
4	show	past · passive		words	cards		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	play	past · passive		music	the cinema	live, often property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:arts:022-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing.lesson:15.

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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