Special effects and stunts, sentence 12
In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen.
Who acts: syrup · What happens: use, look · To what, where: chocolate syrup, black films
This is a sentence of the lesson «Special effects and stunts» 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 (syrup), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 films | case |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 films | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 screen | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 films | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 black | conj |
| 7 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 used | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 9 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 syrup | compound |
| 10 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | aux:pass |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 14 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blood | amod |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | obl |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 looked | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 used | advcl |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 screen | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 screen | case |
| 21 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 screen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | chocolate syrup | black films | as fake blood | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as blood=Attribute | |||
| 2 | look | past | syrup | on screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on screen=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:025-special-effects-and-stunts.lesson:12.
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. 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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