Building tension and suspense, sentence 0

Suspense is the delicious worry of not knowing yet: the reader holds their breath because something might happen, and the writer's job is to make them wait.

Who acts: Suspense, reader, something, job, writer · What happens: be, not know, hold, happen, wait, job · To what, where: delicious worry, breath

This is a sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» 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 (Suspense, reader, something, job), 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	Suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worry	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 worry	det
4	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worry	amod
5	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 knowing	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 knowing	advmod
8	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 worry	nmod
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 knowing	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 holds	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reader	det
12	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holds	nsubj
13	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worry	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 breath	nmod:poss
15	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holds	obj
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 happen	mark
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 happen	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 holds	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 writer	det
23	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 job	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 writer	case
25	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 make	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 holds	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 make	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Suspense	the delicious worry			tree rules
2	not know	gerund			yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hold	present	the reader	their breath			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
4	happen	might	something				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	the writer's job			make property	tree rules
6	wait	infinitive	the writer's job not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	job		the writer				nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:042-building-tension-and-suspense.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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