Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 18
Repetition can build suspense and make time feel slow.
Who acts: Repetition, time · What happens: build, make, feel · To what, where: suspense
This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english 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 (Repetition, time), 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 | Repetition | repetition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 build | aux |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 make | cc |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 build | conj |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | can | Repetition | suspense | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suspense=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | time not said here | slow property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:18.
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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