Special effects and stunts, sentence 3
Once you know how a monster was made, it gets much less scary: watch a behind-the-scenes clip and the beast is a man in a rubber suit having a cup of tea.
Who acts: you, monster, man · What happens: know, make, get, watch, be, have · To what, where: monster, scenes clip, man, rubber suit, cup · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, monster, man), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 know | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | advcl |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 made | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monster | det |
| 6 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 less | advmod |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 scary | advmod |
| 14 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gets | xcomp |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 watch | punct |
| 16 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 clip | det |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 clip | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 behind | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 scenes | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 the | punct |
| 22 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 clip | compound |
| 23 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watch | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beast | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beast | det |
| 26 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clip | conj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 man | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watch | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 suit | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 suit | det |
| 32 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 suit | compound |
| 33 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 man | nmod |
| 34 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 man | acl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 cup | det |
| 36 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 having | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 tea | case |
| 38 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cup | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | a monster | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | get | present | monster | scary property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | a scenes clip and the beast | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a man | a rubber suit | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | a man not said here | a cup of tea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
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:3.
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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