Building tension and suspense, sentence 11
Hints such as sounds, shadows and strange details make readers imagine the worst, which is often scarier than any description.
Who acts: Hints, readers · What happens: make, imagine, be · To what, where: worst
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 (Hints, readers), 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 | Hints | hint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 sounds | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hints | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shadows | punct |
| 6 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sounds | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 details | cc |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 details | amod |
| 9 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sounds | conj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 imagine | nsubj |
| 12 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 worst | det |
| 14 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 imagine | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scarier | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 scarier | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 scarier | cop |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 scarier | advmod |
| 19 | scarier | scary | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 worst | acl:relcl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 description | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 description | det |
| 22 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scarier | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Hints such sounds and shadows and strange details | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | imagine | infinitive | readers | the worst | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | than any description; often, scary property | tree rules |
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:11.
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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